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UPPCS Modern History Gap Sheet: Governors-General and Viceroys: who did what.
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First, the concept
Three titles, three phases. 1773–1833: Governor-General of Bengal (Regulating Act). 1833–1858: Governor-General of India (Charter Act 1833; Bentinck first). 1858–1947: also Viceroy, the Crown's man (Act of 1858; Canning first).
UPPCS names an event and asks whose time it was. So this sheet lists events, each with its ruler. Every Governor-General's name has already appeared in some option; the events are where the gaps are.
✅ Already asked (63)
Company rule (1772–1835)
- Regulating Act 1773 · Warren Hastings
- Supreme Court at Calcutta 1774 · Warren Hastings; Elijah Impey first Chief Justice
- Asiatic Society of Bengal 1784 · Warren Hastings; founded by William Jones
- Rohilla War 1774 · Warren Hastings; later a charge in his impeachment
- Pitt's India Act 1784 · Warren Hastings; created the Board of Control
- Permanent Settlement 1793 · Cornwallis; zamindars in Bengal, Bihar, Odisha
- Cornwallis Code 1793 · Cornwallis; separated revenue from justice
- Subsidiary Alliance (1798) · Wellesley; Hyderabad first to sign
- Fort William College 1800 · Wellesley; to train Company officers
- Censorship of the Press Act 1799 · Wellesley; feared French propaganda
- Treaty of Amritsar 1809 · Minto I, with Ranjit Singh
- Treaty of Sugauli 1816 · Lord Hastings; ended the Anglo-Nepal War
- Ryotwari system 1820 · Lord Hastings' time; Thomas Munro in Madras
- Mahalwari system 1822 · Lord Hastings' time; Holt Mackenzie; North-West Provinces
- Sati banned 1829 · William Bentinck; Regulation XVII
- Thugs suppressed · William Bentinck; Colonel Sleeman
- English Education Act 1835 (Macaulay's Minute) · William Bentinck
Governors-General of India (1835–1858)
- Press freed 1835 · Charles Metcalfe, 'liberator of the Indian press'
- First Anglo-Afghan War 1839–42 · Auckland
- Slavery abolished 1843 · Ellenborough
- Sindh annexed 1843 · Ellenborough; Charles Napier
- Treaty of Lahore 1846 · Hardinge I; after the First Anglo-Sikh War
- Doctrine of Lapse (Satara first, 1848) · Dalhousie; also Jhansi, Nagpur, Sambalpur
- First railway, Bombay–Thane 1853 · Dalhousie
- Telegraph and Post Office Act 1854 · Dalhousie
- Wood's Despatch 1854 · Dalhousie; 'Magna Carta of English education in India'
- Public Works Department · Dalhousie
- Awadh annexed 1856 (misrule, not lapse) · Dalhousie; Wajid Ali Shah deposed
- Widow Remarriage Act 1856 · Canning; Vidyasagar's campaign
- Universities of Calcutta, Bombay, Madras 1857 · Canning
- Queen's Proclamation 1858 · Canning; read at Allahabad
- Indian Penal Code 1860; income tax 1860 · Canning; tax by James Wilson
Viceroys (1858–1947)
- High Courts 1865 · John Lawrence
- 'Masterly inactivity' towards Afghanistan · John Lawrence
- Financial decentralisation 1870 · Mayo
- First census 1872 · Mayo; first regular (synchronous) census 1881 under Ripon
- Mayo College, Ajmer · Mayo; for the sons of princes
- Royal Titles Act 1876; Delhi Durbar 1877 (Victoria 'Kaisar-i-Hind') · Lytton
- Vernacular Press Act 1878 · Lytton; repealed by Ripon 1882
- Local self-government resolution 1882 · Ripon, 'father of local self-government'
- Ilbert Bill 1883 · Ripon; Indian judges could try Europeans
- First Factory Act 1881 · Ripon; second in 1891 under Lansdowne
- Bengal Tenancy Act 1885; Third Anglo-Burmese War · Dufferin
- Age of Consent Act 1891 · Lansdowne; Malabari's campaign
- Durand Line 1893 · Lansdowne
- Partition of Bengal 1905 · Curzon
- Indian Universities Act 1904 · Curzon; after the Raleigh Commission
- Ancient Monuments Preservation Act 1904 · Curzon; ASI revived under John Marshall
- North-West Frontier Province 1901 · Curzon
- Younghusband mission to Tibet 1904 · Curzon
- Morley-Minto Reforms 1909 · Minto II; separate electorates for Muslims
- Delhi Durbar 1911; partition annulled; capital to Delhi · Hardinge II
- Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms 1919 · Chelmsford; dyarchy in the provinces
- Chamber of Princes 1921 · Chelmsford's plan, opened under Reading
- ICS exam held in India too, 1922 · Reading; at Allahabad
- Deepavali Declaration 1929 (dominion status) · Irwin
- Sarda Act 1929 (child marriage) · Irwin
- Reserve Bank of India 1935 · Willingdon
- August Offer 1940 · Linlithgow
- Bengal famine 1943 · Linlithgow, then Wavell
- Wavell Plan and Shimla Conference 1945 · Wavell
- Royal Indian Navy mutiny 1946 · Wavell; began in Bombay
- 3 June Plan and Radcliffe Line 1947 · Mountbatten
❌ Not asked yet (6)
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🔒 6 items not asked yet
Company rule (1772–1835): 1 · Viceroys (1858–1947): 5
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⚠️ Bentinck was the first Governor-General of India, Canning the first Viceroy, Mountbatten the first Governor-General of free India, and Rajagopalachari the first and last Indian one. The Widow Remarriage Act (1856) came under Canning, not Dalhousie. Awadh was taken for 'misrule', not by the Doctrine of Lapse.
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