VICEROYS OF INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE

VICEROYS OF INDIA UNDER BRITISH RULE

Lord Canning ( 1856 – 1862 )

Established the grand old universities of India in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras in 1857 Remarriage of widows was legalized Canning passed the “Indian Panel Code” in to law 1860 “The  Civil Procedure Code“ in 1861 came into force

Sir John Lawarance  ( 1864 – 1869 )

Lord Mayo ( 1869 – 1872 )

It was under Mayo that the first general census was undertaken in India Mayo was murdered in 1872 by a Pathan in Andaman

Lord Lytton ( 1876 – 1880 )

Lytton proclaimed Queen Victoria as the Empress of India in a Durbar at Delhi Lytton started the “Statutory Civil Service” Lytton enacted the “Vernacular Press Bill”

Lord Minto ll ( 1905 – 1910 )

“Minto – Morly reforms”

Lord Hardinge ll ( 1910 – 1906 )

The first World War broke out in 1914 when Hardinge ll was riling India

Lord Chelmsford ( 1916 – 1921 )

“Montague – Chelmsford Reforms” in 1919 “Rowlatt Act” in 1919 Jalian Wallah Bagh, Khilafath Movement and Gandhiji’s “non-co-operation movement” started when was the Viceroy

Lord Reading ( 1921 – 1926 )

Reading replace the “Press Act of 1910” Reading crushed the Moplah Roit in Malabar in 1921 Reading abolished the cotton excise duty Indianisation of the Army

Lord Irwin (1926 - 1931)

Simon Commission visit India during the rule of Irwin The first Round Table Conference was held in London in 1930 Gandhi Irwin Pact in 1931 “Sarada Act” of 1927

Lord Linlinthgow (1936 - 1943)

An election under the Act of 1935 was held 1939 Second World War start “Quit India Agitation” in the year 1942 In the Bengal famine of 1943, half a million died Burma was separated from India Orissa and Sind provinces were created

Lord Wavell (1943-1947)

Cabinet Mission in 1946

Lord Mountbatten (1947 - 1948)

A great Diplomat “The Indian Independence Act” was passed by the british parliament in July 1947