Company's Subordinate Governor, governor-general

Question 1

Robert Clive:

Answer 1

Plassey, establishment of the British Empire through wars in Buxar (1757).

Question 2

Warren Hastings:

Answer 2

first Governor-General of Bengal, Capital - Murshidabad to Calcutta, Regulating Act 1773, was impeached in Britain (1774). Rise of the powers of district magistrate.

Question 3

Lord Cornwallis:

Answer 3

Founder of Indian Civil Services, founder of the Police System, brought in permanent settlement, creator of the Cornwallis Code. (1786)

Question 4

Lord Wellesley:

Answer 4

Mastermind of the Subsidiary Alliance, founder of Fort William College (Calcutta), known as the Bengal Tiger (1798).

Question 5

Lord Hastings:

Answer 5

British influence on Nepal through the Treaty of Suboli, Pindari War, the last defeat of Maratha power (1813).

Question 6

Lord William Bentinek:

Answer 6

Charter Act of 1833, first Governor-General of India, restrains against the Sati practices, suppression of the Thugee practices by Colonel Sleeman, beginning of English education through Macaulay’s Minute (1828).

Question 7

Charles Metcalfe:

Answer 7

liberator of India Press (1835).

Question 8

Lord Auckland:

Answer 8

first Anglo-Afghan war (1836).

Question 9

Lord Ellenborough:

Answer 9

abolished Slavery practices, annexation of Sindh (1842), Lord Harding (1844).

Question 10

Lord Dalhousie:

Answer 10

annexation of Punjab, second Anglo-Burma war and annexation of Lower Burma, annexation of states without a heir to the British Empire through the Doctrine of Lapse, annexation of Awadh on the basis of misrule, beginning of Postal services in 1854, beginning of Railway line in 1853 through Bombay-thane, during this time there was a rebellion against 1857.

Question 11

Lord Elgin:

Answer 11

suppressed the Wahabi Movement, death in Dharmashila (1862).

Question 12

Lord Lawrence

Answer 12

invasion of Bhutan, formation of the Famine commission (1864).

Question 13

Lord Mayo

Answer 13

beginning of India’s first census (1869). First time in 1871

Question 14

Lord Northbrook:

Answer 14

worked under pseudonym Owen Meredith, constitution of Strachey:
Commission for famine, Organisation of first Delhi Darbar, Vernacular Press Act and Arms Act were brought in, Anglo Muslim/Aligarh University was established (1872).

Question 15

Lord Lytton:

Answer 15

Strachey Commission, Vernacular Press Act was passed (1876).

Question 16

Lord Ripon:

Answer 16

end of Vernacular Press Act, beginning of Local Self-Government, regular Census began from 1881, Hunter Commission on Indian education, first Factories Act, the Ilbert Bill Controversy, India came to known by the name of Savior (1880).

Question 17

Lord Dufferin:

Answer 17

third Anglo-Burma war, establishment of Indian National Congress in Bombay by A.O Hume in 1885.

Question 18

Lord Lansdowne:

Answer 18

inauguration of Durand Line, second Factories Act (1888).

Question 19

Lord Curzon:

Answer 19

Scott-Moncrieff Commission on irrigation, Andrew Frazer Commission for Police Reforms, University Commission under the presidency of Thomas Roe, MacDonald Commission on famines, Indian University Act of 1904, division of Bengal (1899).

Question 20

Lord Minto Il:

Answer 20

establishment of Muslim League in Dhaka by Aagha Khan and Salim Ullah by 1906, separate electoral system was demanded (1905) through Minto Morley.

Question 21

Lord Hardinge II:

Answer 21

British King George V came to India, On 12 December, 1911
inauguration for Delhi Darbar was held and Bengal division was canceled and Delhi was made the capital (1910).

Question 22

Lord Chelmsford:

Answer 22

Congress’ Lucknow session was held in 1916, Sadler Commission on education, Rowlatt Act of 1929, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919, beginning of Non-Cooperation Movement (1916).

Question 23

Lord Irwin:

Answer 23

arrival of Simon Commission in 1928, Congress’ Lahore Session in 1929 and the discussion of the goal of Purna Swaraj, beginning of the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930, first Roundtable Conference (1926).

Question 24

Lord Willingdon:

Answer 24

preparation of the second Roundtable Conference and representation of Congress by Gandhi Ji, initiation of the second Civil Disobedience Movement in 1932, signing of Poona Pact between Gandhi Ji and Ambedkar, Ramsay MacDonald’s Communal Award, organisation of the third Roundtable Conference, Congress participated in the second Roundtable Conference only (1930). Indian Government Act of 1935.

Question 25

Lord Linlithgow:

Answer 25

organisation of Congress in 7 out of 11 provinces, beginning of the Second World War, renouncement by the Congress Cabinet, August Proposal of 1940, the first demand for Pakistan in League of Lahore in 1940, beginning of Quit India Movement in 1942, beginning of the Cripps Mission (1942).

Question 26

Lord Wavell:

Answer 26

Shimla compromise in 1945, beginning of the Cabinet Mission, Stafford Cripps, A. V Alexander and Pethick Lawrence were members of this mission (1944).

Question 27

Lord Mountbatten:

Answer 27

British India’s last and Independent India’s first Governor-General, Indian Independence on 15 August 1947.

Question 28

How was the fist and last Governor-General of Independent India

Answer 28

Chakraborty Rajgopalachari