The Governors-General
Imperial Entities of India |
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| Dutch India | 1604–1825 |
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| Danish India | 1620–1869 |
| French India | 1759–1954 |
| Portuguese India 1510–1961 | |
| Casa da Índia | 1434–1833 |
| Portuguese East India Company | 1628–1633 |
| British India 1613–1947 | |
| East India Company | 1612–1757 |
| Company rule in India | 1757–1857 |
| British Raj | 1858–1947 |
| British rule in Burma | 1824–1942 |
| 1765–1947/48 | |
| Partition of India |
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(The Governors-General (locum tenens) are not included in this table unless a major event occurred during their tenure.)
| Governor-General | Period of Tenure | Events |
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| Warren Hastings | 20 October 1773–1 February 1785 | Bengal famine of 1770 (1769–1773) Rohilla War (1773–1774) First Anglo-Maratha War (1777–1783) Chalisa famine (1783–84) Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784) |
| Charles Cornwallis | 12 September 1786–28 October 1793 | Cornwallis Code (1793) Permanent Settlement Cochin become semi-protected States under British (1791) Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–1792) Doji bara famine (1791–92) Separation of judicial and revenue administrations |
| John Shore | 28 October 1793–March 1798 | East India Company Army reorganized and down-sized. Jaipur (1794) & Travancore (1795) come under British protection. Andaman Islands occupied (1796) Company took control of coastal region Ceylon from Dutch (1796). |
| Richard Wellesley | 18 May 1798–30 July 1805 | Nizam of Hyderabad becomes first State to sign Subsidiary alliance introduced by Wellesley (1798). Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799) Nawab of Oudh cedes Gorakhpur and Rohilkhand divisions; Allahabad, Fatehpur, Cawnpore, Etawah, Mainpuri, Etah districts; part of Mirzapur; and terai of Kumaun (Ceded Provinces, 1801) |
| Charles Cornwallis (second term) | 30 July 1805–5 October 1805 | Financial strain in East India Company after costly campaigns. Cornwallis reappointed to bring peace, but dies in Ghazipur. |
| George Hilario Barlow (locum tenens) | 10 October 1805–31 July 1807 | Vellore Mutiny (July 10, 1806) |
| Lord Minto | 31 July 1807–4 October 1813 | Invasion of Java Occupation of Mauritius |
| Marquess of Hastings | 4 October 1813–9 January 1823 | Anglo-Nepal War of 1814 Annexation of Kumaon, Garhwal, and east Sikkim. Cis-Sutlej states (1815). Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818) States of Rajputana accept British suzerainty (1817). Singapore was founded (1818). Cutch accepts British suzerainty (1818). Gaikwads of Baroda accept British suzerainty (1819). Central India Agency (1819). |
| Lord Amherst | 1 August 1823–13 March 1828 | First Anglo–Burmese War (1823–1826) Annexation of Assam, Manipur, Arakan, and Tenasserim from Burma |
| William Bentinck | 4 July 1828–20 March 1835 | Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848 Mysore State goes under British administration (1831–1881) Bahawalpur accepts British Suzerainty (1833) Coorg annexed (1834). |
| Lord Auckland | 4 March 1836–28 February 1842 | North-Western Provinces established (1836) Post Offices were established (1837) Agra famine of 1837–38 Aden is captured by Company (1839) First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) Massacre of Elphinstone's army (1842). |
| Lord Ellenborough | 28 February 1842–June 1844 | First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) Annexation of Sindh (1843) Indian Slavery Act, 1843 |
| Henry Hardinge | 23 July 1844–12 January 1848 | First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846) Sikhs cede Jullundur Doab, Hazara, and Kashmir to the British under Treaty of Lahore (1846) Sale of Kashmir to Gulab Singh of Jammu under Treaty of Amritsar (1846). |
| Marquess of Dalhousie | 12 January 1848–28 February 1856 | Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) Annexation of Punjab and North-West Frontier Province (1849) Construction begins on Indian Railways (1850) Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850 First telegraph line laid in India (1851) Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852–1853) Annexation of Lower Burma Great Ganges Canal opened (1854) Annexation of Satara (1848), Jaipur and Sambalpur (1849), Nagpur and Jhansi (1854) under Doctrine of Lapse. Annexation of Berar (1853) and Awadh (1856). Postage Stamps for India were introduced. (1854). Public Telegram services starts operation (1855). |
| Charles Canning | 28 February 1856–1 November 1858 | Hindu Widows Remarriage Act (July 25, 1856) First Indian universities founded (January–September 1857) Indian Rebellion of 1857 (10 May 1857–20 June 1858) largely in North-Western Provinces and Oudh Liquidation of the English East India Company under Government of India Act 1858 |
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