🔆 Viceroy of India and Events During Regime
▪️Lord Canning (1856-1862)
✅Revolt of 1857
✅Establishment of three universities at Calcutta, Madras and Bombay in 1857
✅Abolition of East India Company and transfer of control to the Crown by the Government of India Act, 1858
✅Indian Councils Act of 1861
▪️Lord John Lawrence (1864-1869)
✅Bhutan War (1865)
✅Establishment of the High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras (1865)
▪️Lord Lytton (1876-1880)
✅The Vernacular Press Act (1878)
✅The Arms Act (1878)
✅The Second Afghan War (1878-80)
✅Queen Victoria assumed the title of ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ or Queen Empress of India
▪️Lord Ripon (1880-1884)
✅Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882)
✅The first Factory Act (1881)
✅Government resolution on local self- government (1882)
✅The Ilbert Bill controversy (1883-84)
✅Hunter Commission on education (1882)
▪️Lord Dufferin (1884-1888)
✅The Third Burmese War (1885-86).
✅Establishment of the Indian National Congress (1885)
▪️Lord Lansdowne (1888-1894)
✅Factory Act (1891).
✅Indian Councils Act (1892).
✅Setting up of Durand Commission (1893)
▪️Lord Curzon (1899-1905)
✅Appointment of Police Commission (1902)
✅Appointment of Universities Commission (1902)
✅Indian Universities Act (1904).
✅Partition of Bengal (1905)
▪️Lord Minto II (1905-1910)
✅Swadeshi Movements (1905-11)
✅Surat Split of Congress (1907)
✅Establishment of Muslim League (1906)
✅Morley-Minto Reforms(1909)
▪️Lord Hardinge II (1910-1916)
✅Annulment of Partition of Bengal (1911)
✅Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi (1911).
✅Establishment of the Hindu Mahasabha (1915)
▪️Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921)
✅Lucknow pact (1916)
✅Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
✅Montagu’s August Declaration (1917)
✅Government of India Act (1919)
✅The Rowlatt Act (1919)
✅Jallianwalla Bagh massacre (1919)
✅Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements
▪️Lord Reading (1921-1926)
✅Chauri Chaura incident (1922)
✅Withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement (1922)
✅Establishment of Swaraj Party(1922)
✅Kakori train robbery (1925)
▪️Lord Irwin (1926-1931)
✅Simon Commission to India (1927)
✅Harcourt Butler Indian States Commission (1927)
✅Nehru Report (1928)
✅Deepavali Declaration (1929)
✅Lahore session of the Congress (Purna Swaraj Resolution) 1929
✅Dandi March and the Civil Disobedience Movement (1930)
✅First Round Table Conference (1930)
✅Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931)
▪️Lord Willingdon (1931-1936)
✅Communal Award (1932)
✅Second & Third Round Table
Conference (1932)
✅Poona Pact (1932)
✅Government of India Act of 1935
▪️Lord Linlithgow (1936-1944)
✅Resignation of the Congress ministries after the outbreak of the Second World War (1939)
✅Tripuri Crisis & formation of Forward Bloc (1939)
✅Lahore Resolution of the Muslim League (demand for a separate state for Muslims) 1940
✅‘August Offer’ (1940)
✅Formation of the Indian National Army (1941)
✅Cripps Mission (1942)
✅Quit India Movement (1942)
▪️Lord Wavell (1944-1947) C.
✅Rajagopalachari’s CR Formula (1944)
✅Wavell Plan and the Simla Conference (1942)
✅Cabinet Mission (1946)
✅Direct Action Day (1946)
✅Announcement of end of British rule in India by Clement Attlee (1947)
▪️Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)
✅June Third Plan (1947)
✅Redcliff commission (1947)
✅India’s Independence (15 August 1947)
▪️Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1948- 1950)
✅Last Governor-General of India, before the office, was permanently abolished in 1950
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