The History of Modern India
The history of modern India can easily be divided into
two portions for easy-reading. In this way we can study it easily. Its first
portion includes the establishment of the East India Company and its expansion.
The Company’s expansion in India was done during the rule of different
governors-general of that time. Here is given the list of those governors-general
of India along with their important work done during their reign. This
shortlisted work can be helpful in our preparation for studying history.
The Governors General of India
|
Sr.No.
|
Year
of Service
|
Name
of Governor
|
Important
events during the office
|
|
1
|
1774-85
|
Warren
Hastings
|
1. Quarrel
with the council
2. The
case of Nand Kumar
3. First
Maratha War (1775-82)
4. Raja
Chet Singh of Banaras – Begums of Oudh (1784)
5. Second
Mysore war (1780-84)
6. The
Declaratory Act of 1781
7. Fox’s
India bill 1783
8. Pitt’s
India Bill1784
9. Impeachment
of Warren Hastings
|
|
2
|
1785-86
|
Macpherson
|
He
was an officiating officer for one year
|
|
3
|
1786-93
|
Lord
Cornwallis
|
1. His
Reforms
2. Third
Mysore war (1790)
3. Permanent
Settlement of Bengal (1793)
4. The
renewal of the Charter (1793)
|
|
4
|
1793-1798
|
Sir
John Shore
|
1. Policy
of Non-Intervention
2. Affairs
of Oudh
3. Battle
of Kurdlah (1795)
4. The
Mutiny of Bengal Officers and his recall
|
|
5
|
1798-1805
|
Lord
Wellesley
|
1. Fourth
Mysore War (1799)
2. Treaty
of Bhassien (1802)
3. Second
and Third Maratha Wars (1802-04)
4. Subsidiary
Alliances
|
|
6
|
1805-06
|
Lord
Cornwallis
|
Second
term, Died at Ghazipur
|
|
7
|
1805-07
|
Sir
George Barlow
|
1. Vellore
Mutiny
2. Policy
of Non-Intervention continued.
|
|
8
|
1807-13
|
Lord
Minto
|
1. Strong
Foreign Policy
2. Sending
Missions to foreign countries
3. Pindar
War
4. Fourth
Maratha War (1817-18)
5. Internal
Reforms.
|
|
9
|
1813-23
|
Marquis
of Hastings
|
1. War
with Nepal (1814-16)
2. Pindari
War
3. The
Fourth Maratha War (1817-18)
4. Internal
Reforms.
|
|
10
|
1813-28
|
Lord
Amherst
|
1. The
First Burmese War
2. Capture
of Bharatpur (1825)
3. Mutiny
at Barrack pore
|
|
11
|
1828-35
|
Lord
William Bentinck
|
1. His
reforms
2. Relations
with native states
3. Abolition
of Suttee and Infanticide (1829)
4. Suppression
of Thuggee
5. Renewal
of the Company’s Charter (1833)
6. Macaulay-Wilson
controversy.
|
|
12
|
1832-37
|
Charles
Metcalfe
|
1. Officiating
2. Made
the Press free
|
|
13
|
1837-42
|
Lord
Auckland
|
1. The
Black Act
2. First
Afghan War
|
|
14
|
1842-44
|
Lord
Ellenborough
|
1. The
first Afghan War continued
2. Annexation
of Sindh (1843)
3. Affairs
of Gwalior
|
|
15
|
1844-47
|
Lord
Hasting
|
1. First
Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46)
2. Treaty
of Lahore (9 March, 1846) and
3. Treaty
of Bhairowal (26 Dec. 1846)
4. Treaty
of Allahabad (1846)
5. His
reforms
|
|
16
|
1848-56
|
Lord
Dalhousie
|
1. Second
Anglo-Sikh War (1848-89)
2. Annexation
of Punjab (29 March, 1849)
3. Second
Burmese War
4. His
reforms
5. Doctrine
of Lapse
6. Renewal
of Charter Act (1853)
|
|
17
|
1856-58
|
Lord
Canning
|
1. The
Persian War
2. The
Mutiny (1857)
3. The
Queen’s proclamation (1858)
4. End
of the Company’s rule.
|
Source :- History of India
By :- GS Kapur