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GOVERNOR- GENERALS DURING BRITISH PERIOD (1773-1856)

1773-85 1786-93 1793-98

Lord Cornwallis Sir John Shore Warren Hastings Charter act of 1793 Establishment of Appellate courts and Annexation of , Bihar and Odisha Policy of Non-intervention lower grade courts End to the dual system of Battle of Kharda Establishment of Sanskrit college administration Third Anglo-Mysore War and Treaty of Regulating Act of 1773 Seringapatam Supreme court at Calcutta Introduction of Permanent Settlement Asiatic Society of Bengal Founding father of 'Indian Civil Services' First Anglo-Maratha War and Treaty of Reforms for purification of Administration Salbai Father of modern Police Administration. Pitt's India Act-1784 Proposed Cornwallis Code (1793) Rohilla War (1774) and annexation of Rohilkhand Tenure Act of 1781 Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780-84) Judicial Murder of Nand Kumar in 1775

1807-13 1805-07 1798-1805

Lord Minto-I Sir George Barlow Lord Arthur Wellesley Amritsar treaty (1809) Acting Governor-General of India until the Introduction of Subsidiary Alliance in Charter Act of 1813. arrival of Lord Minto 1798 Mutiny of Vellore in 1806 Fouth Anglo-Mysore war (1799) Pursued moderate policy, that is, the policy Second Anglo-Maratha war (1803-05) of non-intervention with princely states. Establishing Fort William College at Calcutta

1813-23 1823-28 1828-35

Lord Hastings Lord Amherst The policy of Non-intervention First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826) Charter Act of 1833 came to an end Mutiny of Barrackpore (1824) Abolition of Sati Third Anglo-Maratha war Capture of Barakhphr (1826) occured. Suppression of Thugi, infanticide Abolition of Peshwaship and child sacrifices. Establishment of the Ryotwari English Education Act of 1835 System in Madras and Bombay Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata Mahalwari system in north-western Raja of Mysore was deposed and Provinces and Bombay territories annexed (1831). Annexation of Cachar (1834) and Jaintia (1832) and Coorg (1834) Formation of (1834) Commissioners of revenue and circuit Treaty of ‘Perpetual friendship’ with Ranjit Singh

1842-44 1836-42 1835-36 Lord Ellenborough Lord Auckland Sir Charles Metcalfe Afghan War completed and Sindh First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-1842) Liberation of Indian press of prohibitory annexed in 1843. Improvement of native schools and the restrictions as new press law was First Governor General to be expansion of the commercial industry passed. recalled for defying the orders of of India the Court of Directors War with Gwalior (1843)

1844-48 1848-56 Lord Hardinge-I Lord Dalhousie Issued orders for prohibition of Application of 'Doctrine of Lapse' female infanticide and suppression The introduction of Railways, Telegraph and Postal of the human sacrifice systems Anglo-Sikh War (1845-1846) Charter- Act of 1853 passed. Wood's Education Dispatch 1854 Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852) Widow Remarriage Act (1856). Military headquarter of moved to Shimla Headquarter of Bengal artillery was moved to Meerut. Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-56) Establishment of separate Public Works Department in every province 2 canals (1854), upper Ganga canal and Baridoad canal Harbors of Calcutta, Bombay and Karachi modernized Established engineering college in Roorkee Abolition of titles and pensions. Started Competitive examination for Indian Civil Services