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Warren Hastings : (1772-85) First Governor General of Bengal of East India Company. Appointment of Board of Revenue - Interference in Rohilla War, Nanda Kumar’s murder, the case of Chet Singh and acceptance of bribes. Impeachment proceedings in London prolonged for seven years.
Lord Cornwallis : (1786-93) Permanent Settlement of Bengal. Reorganisation of the Revenue Courts - Criminal Courts - compilation of Cornwallis Code.
Sir John Shore : (1793-98) Non-intervention policy.
Lord Wellesley : (1798-1805) Subsidiary Alliance - a scheme to keep British forces under the Indian rulers - opened a college to train the Company’s servants in Calcutta. He is called the “Father of the Civil Service in India”.
Sir George Barlow : (1805-1807) Mutiny in Vellore.
Lord Minto I : (1807-1813) Treaty of Amritsar.
Marquess of Hastings : (1813-1823) He was the first to appoint Indians to high posts. The first venacular newspaper Samachar Patrika began to be published. Passed the Tenancy Act to protect the cultivators.
Lord Amherst : (1823-1828) Mutiny of Barrackpur. The Indians refused to be carried away by ships to Burma and it led to mutiny.
Lord William Bentinck : (1829-1835) English accepted as the medium of instruction after the famous Macaulay's recommendations-Medical College of Calcutta was started. Abolition of Sati, suppression of thugee, banning of female infanticide, abolition of human sacrifice, reform in the Hindu Law of inheritance.
First Governor of India under East India Company.
Sir Charles Metcalfe : (1835-1836) He removed the restrictions on the vernacular press.
Lord Auckland : (1836-1842) Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta to Delhi.
Lord Hardinge : (1844-1848) The First Sikh War (1845- 1846 AD) started in his period. The success in this war extended the British Empire upto the Doab of Jallunder.
Lord Dalhousie : (1848-1856) Doctrine of Lapse - annexing the princely states whose ruler died without a natural heir. Accordingly, Satara, Jaipur, Sambalpur, Baghat, Udaipur, Jhansi and Nagpur annexed. Simla made summer capital. First Railway Line was laid from Bombay to Thana in 1853. Competitive examination for the I.C.S. began.
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Warren Hastings : (1772-85) First Governor General of Bengal of East India Company. Appointment of Board of Revenue - Interference in Rohilla War, Nanda Kumar’s murder, the case of Chet Singh and acceptance of bribes. Impeachment proceedings in London prolonged for seven years.
Lord Cornwallis : (1786-93) Permanent Settlement of Bengal. Reorganisation of the Revenue Courts - Criminal Courts - compilation of Cornwallis Code.
Sir John Shore : (1793-98) Non-intervention policy.
Lord Wellesley : (1798-1805) Subsidiary Alliance - a scheme to keep British forces under the Indian rulers - opened a college to train the Company’s servants in Calcutta. He is called the “Father of the Civil Service in India”.
Sir George Barlow : (1805-1807) Mutiny in Vellore.
Lord Minto I : (1807-1813) Treaty of Amritsar.
Marquess of Hastings : (1813-1823) He was the first to appoint Indians to high posts. The first venacular newspaper Samachar Patrika began to be published. Passed the Tenancy Act to protect the cultivators.
Lord Amherst : (1823-1828) Mutiny of Barrackpur. The Indians refused to be carried away by ships to Burma and it led to mutiny.
Lord William Bentinck : (1829-1835) English accepted as the medium of instruction after the famous Macaulay's recommendations-Medical College of Calcutta was started. Abolition of Sati, suppression of thugee, banning of female infanticide, abolition of human sacrifice, reform in the Hindu Law of inheritance.
First Governor of India under East India Company.
Sir Charles Metcalfe : (1835-1836) He removed the restrictions on the vernacular press.
Lord Auckland : (1836-1842) Grand Trunk Road from Calcutta to Delhi.
Lord Hardinge : (1844-1848) The First Sikh War (1845- 1846 AD) started in his period. The success in this war extended the British Empire upto the Doab of Jallunder.
Lord Dalhousie : (1848-1856) Doctrine of Lapse - annexing the princely states whose ruler died without a natural heir. Accordingly, Satara, Jaipur, Sambalpur, Baghat, Udaipur, Jhansi and Nagpur annexed. Simla made summer capital. First Railway Line was laid from Bombay to Thana in 1853. Competitive examination for the I.C.S. began.
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