List of governors-general of India
The Regulating Act 1773 created the office with the title of Governor-General of Presidency of Fort William, or Governor-General of Bengal to be appointed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company (EIC).Following the adoption of the Government of India Act 1858, the Governor-General representing the Crown became known as the Viceroy.The designation 'Viceroy', although it was most frequently used in ordinary parlance, had no statutory authority, and was never employed by Parliament.Although the Proclamation of 1858 announcing the assumption of the government of India by the Crown referred to Lord Canning as "first Viceroy and Governor-General", none of the Warrants appointing his successors referred to them as 'Viceroys', and the title, which was frequently used in Warrants dealing with precedence and in public notifications, was one of ceremonies used in connection with the state and social functions of the Sovereign's representative.The office of Governor-General continued to exist as a ceremonial post in each of the new dominions of India and Pakistan, until they adopted republican constitutions in 1950 and 1956 respectively.
Regulating Act 1773Governor-GeneralPresidencyFort WilliamEast India CompanyCouncil of FourCharter Act 1833Governor-General of IndiaWilliam BentinckIndian Rebellion of 1857British Indiaprincely statesGovernment of India Act 1858Secretary of State for IndiaCouncil of IndiaLondonGovernment of India Act 1935ViceroyLord CanningdominionsPakistanGovernor of BengalList of governors of BengalCourt of DirectorsWarren Hastings First Rohilla War (1773–1774)Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort WilliamSupreme Council of BengalFirst Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782)Calcutta MadrasaJames Augustus HickyBengal GazetteSecond Anglo-Mysore war (1780–1784)Asiatic Society of BengalSir William JonesPitt's India ActcollectorFirst Rohilla WarMughalShah Alam IIRobert CliveMurshidabadCalcuttaDastakBhagwat GitaCharles WilkinsJohn Macpherson, 1st BaronetThe Earl CornwallisThird Anglo-Mysore warSanskrit Vidyalaya at BenarasVaranasiJohnathan DuncanGovernor of BombayPermanent Settlement in Bihar and Bengal (1793)Cornwallis CodeCivil Services in IndiaJohn ShoreNon-interventionCharter Act 1793Second Rohilla War 1794Battle of KhardaMarathasLt. GenAlured ClarkeRichard Wellesley, 1st Marquess WellesleySubsidiary AllianceFourth Anglo Mysore War 1799TanjoreCarnaticaFort William College at CalcuttaSubsidiary Treaty of BasseinSecond Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805)Raj BhavanCharles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess CornwallisGeorge Barlow, 1st BaronetSepoy mutiny at Vellore (1806)Bank of CalcuttaImperial Bank of IndiaState Bank of IndiaGilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Lord MintoTreaty of Amritsar (1809)Ranjit SinghCharter Act 1813Francis Rawdon-HastingsAnglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816)Treaty of Sugauli (1816)Third Anglo-Maratha War (1816–1818)PeshwashipHindu CollegePresidency UniversityPindari WarPindariBaji Rao IIBombay PresidencyRyotwari SystemMadras PresidencyThomas Munro, 1st Baronet Mahalwari SystemHolt MackenzieJohn AdamWilliam Amherst, 1st Earl AmherstBarrackpore mutiny of 1824Sanskrit College at CalcuttaFirst Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826)Burmese King BagyidawManipurArakanTenasserimTreaty of YandaboWilliam Butterworth BayleyLord William BentinckGovernor General of IndiaBengal Sati Regulation, 1829ThuggeeKol Rebellion (1831)TitumirMysoreCacharEnglish Education Act 1835Medical College and Hospital, KolkataMahalwari SystemBrahmo samajRam Mohan RoyCharles Metcalfe, BaronetCalcutta Public Library (1836)George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland