Indian Governor General List PDF

• End to the dual system of administration
• Regulating Act of 1773
• Supreme Court at Calcutta
• Asiatic Society of Bengal
• First Anglo-Maratha War and Treaty of Salbai
• First English translation of Bhagavad Gita
• Pitt’s India Act-1784

• Establishment of Appellate courts and lower grade courts
• Establishment of Sanskrit college
• Third Anglo-Mysore War and Treaty of Seringapatam
• Introduction of Permanent Settlement and civil services

• Charter act of 1793
• Policy of Non-intervention
• Battle of Kharda

• Introduction of Subsidiary Alliance System
• Fourth Anglo- Mysore war and the Treaty of Bassein
• Second Anglo – Maratha war
• Establishment of Madras presidency
• Establishing Fort William College at Calcutta

• The Acting Governor-General of India until the arrival of Lord Minto,
• Diminished the area of British territory because of his passion for economy and retrenchment,
• The Mutiny of Vellore took place in 1806

• Concluded the treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1809,
• Introduced the Charter Act of 1813

• The policy of Non-intervention came to an end
• third Anglo-Maratha war
• Abolition of Peshwaship
• Establishment of the Ryotwari System in Madras (By Thomas Munroe) and Bombay
• Mahalwari system in north-western Provinces and Bombay

• The annexation of Assam leading to the first Burmese war of 1824,
• The mutiny of Barrackpore in 1824

• First Governor-General of India (Charter Act of 1833 made Governor-General of Bengal as Governor-General of India.)
• Abolition of Sati
• Suppression of Thugee, infanticide and child sacrifices.
• English Education Act of 1835
• Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata

• ‘Liberator of the Indian press
• detached all restraints on an open press

• Dedicated himself to the improvement of native schools and the expansion of the commercial industry of India
• The first Anglo-Afghan war

• Introduced ‘Doctrine of Lapse‘
• Doctrine of Good
• Charles Wood Dispatch
• Post Office Act, 1854
• 1st Railway line connecting Bombay and Thane
• Established engineering college in Roorkee
• Second Anglo-Sikh War
• First telegraph line
•  Establishment of the Public Works Department
• Abolition of titles and pensions.
• Started Competitive  examination for Indian Civil Services
• Widow Remarriage Act

• Three universities at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay in 1857 were established
• Revolt of 1857 took place

Note – Post-1857 Revolt, Governor-General of India was made Viceroy of British India and Canning became the first Viceroy of India/British India.