A. Governors of Fort William in Bengal (1757-1772)
- Roger Drake (1757)
- Robert Clive (First Administration; 1757-1760)
- Holwell (Officiating; 1760)
- Henry Vansittart (1760-1765)
- Robert Clive (Second Administration; 1765-1767)
- Established Dual Government in Bengal from 1765-72
- Bengal White Mutiny by white brigades at Allahabad and Monghyr
- Harry Verelst (1767-1769)
B. Governor Generals (1773-1858)
- Warren Hastings (1773-1785) - Became Governor in 1772 and Governor-General in 1773 through Regulating Act of 1773
- His four councillors were Clavering, Francis, Monson and Barwell
- Abolished Dual system (1767-1772) of administration (1772)
- Auctioned the right to collect land revenue to the highest bidder(1772)
- Divided Bengal into districts and appointed Collectors (1772)
- Rohilla war (1774) and annexation of Rohilkhand by the Nawab of Awadh with the help of Britishers.
- Treaty of Surat (1775) between Raghunath Rao and Warren Hastings, but Council of Calcutta rejected it
- Nanad Kumar incident (1775)
- Treaty of Purandar (1776) between English and Peshwa
- Refined Hindu and Muslim laws. A translation of the code in Sanskrit appeared in 1776 under the title of "Code of Gentoo Laws"
- Chait Singh (Banaras Raja) affair (1778)
- James Augustus Hickey started a weekly paper called Bengal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser (1780)
- First (1st) Anglo-Maratha War (1776-82) and Treaty of Salbai(1782)
- Begums of Oudh / Awadh affair (1782)
- Founded Asiatic Society of Bengal with William Jones in 1784
- Pitts India Act of 1784
- Second (2nd) Anglo-Mysore War (1780-84) and Treaty of Mangalore (1785) with Tipu Sultan
- Started Diwani and Faujdari adalat at the district level and Sadar diwani and Nizamat adalats (appellate courts) at Calcutta.
- Wrote introduction to the first English translation of the Gita by Charles Wilkins
- Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793)
- Sanskrit College, Banaras was founded (1791) by Jonathan Duncan
- New Police System was introduced (1791)
- Third (3rd) Anglo-Mysore War - defeat of Tipu Sultan (1790-92)
- Treaty of Seringapatam (1792)
- Cornwallis code, based on separation of powers, was introduced - Codify law - separated the financial / revenue from the judicial functions / administration (1793)
- Created post of district judge (1793)
- Introduced Permanent Settlement in Bengal (1793)
- Cornwallis is known as the father of the Civil Services in India
- Sir John Shore (1793-1798)
- First (1st) Charter Act was introduced (1793)
- Battle of Kurdla / Kharda / Khadra between Nizam and the Marathas (1795)
- Planned Permanent Settlement with Cornwallis and later succeeded him (1793)
- Famous for his Policy of Non-Interference
- Lord Wallesley (1798-1805)
- Introduced the Subsidiary Alliance system to achieve British paramountcy (1798) - The states that signed the alliance were - Hydrabad (first to sign) in 1798 and then Mysore, Tanjore, Awadh, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Mecheri, Bundi, Bharatpur and Berar
- First treaty with Nizam (1798)
- Fourth (4th) Anglo-Mysore war (1799) - defeat and death of Tipu Sultan
- Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803-1805) - defeat of the Sindhiya, the Bhonsale and the Holkar
- Formation of Madras presidency (1801) during his tenure after the annexation of the kingdoms of Tanjore and Carnatic
- Treaty of Bassein (1802) with Peshwa
- Lord Lake captured Delhi and Agra and the Mughal emperor was put under Company's protection
- Described himself a Bengal Tiger
- Marquess Cornwallis (for the second time) 1805
- Sir George Barlow (1805-1807)
- End of Second Anglo-Maratha (1805)
- Sepoy Mutiny of Vellore (1806)
- Tried towords restoration of peace with Scindhia and Holkar
- Lord Minto (I) (1807 -13)
- Sent the mission of Malcolm to Persia and that of Eliphinston to Kabul (1808)
- Treaty of Amritsar (1809) - with Ranjit Singh
- Charter Act of 1813
- Lord Hastings (1813-1823)
- Anglo-Nepalese (Gurkha / Gorkha) war (1813-1823)
- Treaty of Sugauli / Segowlee / Sequelae (1816) - between the East India Company and King of Nepal
- Treaty of Poona (1817) with Peshwa
- Third (3rd) Anglo-Maratha War (1817-1818)
- Pindari war (1817-1818)
- Creation of Bombay Presidency (1818)
- Ryotwari settlement in Madras by Thomas Munro, the Governor (1820)
- Mahalwari system of land revenue was made in North-West province by James Thomson.
- Adopted the Policy of Intervention and War
- He considered Rajputs as the natural allies
- Lord Amherst (1823-28)
- First (1st) Burmese war (1824-1826)
- Treaty of Yandaboo (1826) - with lower Burma (Pegu) by which British merchants were allowed to settle in southern coast of Burma and Rangoon
- Acquisition of territories in Malay Peninsula (1824)
- Capture of Bharatpur (1826)
- Lord William Cavendish - Bentinck (1828-35)
- Known as most enlightened and liberal Governor-General of India
- Known as Father of Modern Western Education in India
- Abolition / Prohibition of Sati (1829)
- Banned female infanticide (1829)
- Suppression of thuggee / thugs (1829-35) - Military operations led / curbed by William Sleeman - 1830
- Annexed Mysore (1831), Coorg (1834), Central Chachar (1834) on the plea of misgovernment
- Charter Act / Regulation of (1833) - Mertins Bird (Father of land revenue settlement in North)
- Created the province of Agra (1834)
- Macaulay's minutes on Education (1835)
- English was made the official language of india (1835)
- Abolition of provincial court of appeal and circuit set up by Cornwallis
- Appointment of commissioners of circuit and revenue
- Concluded a treaty of perpetual friendship with Ranjit Singh
- Sir Charles (Lord) Metcalfe (1834-1836)
- Passed the famous Press Law, which freed Indian press from restrictions
- Lord Auckland (1836-1842)
- First Afghan War (1836-42)
- Lord Ellenborough (1842-1844)
- Termination of First Afghan Wars (1842)
- Annexation of Sindh (1843)
- War with Gwalior (1843)
- Abolition of slavery in India in year (~1844)
- Lord Hardinge (1844-48)
- First Sikh war (1845-1846)
- Treaty of Lahore (1846) - end of Sikh sovereignty in India
- Prohibition of female infanticide and human sacrifice among Gonds of central India.
- Lord Dalhousie (1848-56)
- Abolished Title and Pension
- Second Sikh War (1845-1846)
- Annexation of Punjab (1849)
- Application of Doctrine of Lapse - Captured Satara (1848), Jaipur and Sambalpur (1849), Baghat (1850), Udaipur (1852), Jhansi (1853) and Nagpur (1854)
- Second Burmese war (1852)
- Annexation of Berar (1853)
- Charter Act of 1853
- Introduction of Railways (32 km) b/t Bombay -Thana (1853)
- Telegraph b/t Calcutta - Agra (1853)
- Postal system (1853)
- Recruitment of the Civil Service by competitive examination (1853)
- Woods Dispatch (1854)
- Widow Remarriage Act (1856)
- Santhal uprising (1855-56)
- Annexation of Oudh (1856)
- Three Universities established in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras (1857)
- Introduced Bon-Regulation System - the system of centralized control in newly acquired territories
- Founded the Public Work Department (P.W.D.)
- Raised Gorkha Regiment
- Shimla was made summer capital of British India
C. British Governor Generals and Viceroys (1858-1947)
- Lord Canning
- Queen Victorias proclamation and India Act of 1858
- White Mutiny
- Indian Councils Act of 1861
- Indian Penal Code in 1860
- Lord Elgin (I) (1862)
- Suppressed Wahabis movement
- Lord John Lawrence (1864 -69)
- Bhutan War ( 1865)
- Establishment of High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1865
- Lord Mayo (1869-72)
- Establishment of statistical survey of India
- Dept. of Agriculture and commerce
- State railways
- He was assassinated in Andamans in 1872
- Sir John Strachey
- Lord Napier of Merchistoun
- Lord Northbrook
- Lord Lytton (I) (1876-80)
- Royal Titles Act of 1876
- Assumption of title of empress of India by Queen Victoria
- Vernacular Press Act
- Arms Act of 1878
- Second Afghan War (1878-80)
- Appointment of first famine commission in 1878
- Lord Ripon (1880-84)
- First Factory Act and First census
- Local Self Government in 1882
- Division finances of the centre in 1882
- Hunter commission on Education
- Ilbert Bill Controversy
- Lord Dufferin (1884-88)
- Burmese War (1885-86)
- Foundation of Indian National Congress
- Lord Landsdowne (1888-94)
- Factory Act of 1891
- Division of Civil services into Imperial, Provincial and Subordinate
- Indian councils Act of 1892
- Appointment of Durand Commission and its definition of Durand line between India (Now Pakistan) and Afghanistan
- Lord Elgin (II)
- Assassination of British By Chapekar
- Lord Curzon (1899-1905)
- Thomas Raleigh commission
- Ancient Monuments Preservation Act of 1904
- Establishment of Agriculture research Institute at Pusa in Bihar
- Partition of Bengal in 1905
- Lord Minto (II) (1905-10)
- Anti Partition and swadeshi movements
- Surat session and Split in the congress
- Minto Morley reforms
- Foundation of Muslim League by Aga Khan
- Nawab of Dacca etc. in 1906
- Lord Hardinge II (1910-16)
- Annulment of partion of Bengal
- Transfer imperial capital to Delhi
- Death of G.K. Gokhale in 1915
- Foundation of Hindu Mahasabha in 1915
- Lord Chelmford (1916 -21)
- Return of Ghandhji
- Home Rule leagues
- Luknow Session and reunion of congress in 1916
- Lucknow pact in 1916 by the efforts of B.G.Tilak
- August Declaration of Montague
- Formation of Indian Liberal Federation by S.N.Banerjee
- Jallian Walla Bagh Massacre (13 April 1919)
- Khilafat movement (1919-20)
- Appointment of Sir S.P.Sinha as Lieutenant Governor of Bihar (First Indian)
- Lord Reading (1921-26)
- ChauriChaura incident ( 5th Feb 1922)
- Formation of Swaraj party by C.R.Das
- Motilal Nehru in Dec 1922
- Foundation of RastriyaSwayamSevakSangh (RSS) by K.B.Hedgewar (1925)
- Repeal of Rowlatt Act
- Holding of simultaneous examinations in India and England
- Beginning of Indianisation of officers cadre of the Indian Army.
- Lord Irwin (1926-31)
- Simon commission and its Boycott
- Harcourt Butler Indian States commission (1927)
- Nehru report and its rejection by Muslim League
- Hindu Mahasabha etc.
- Deepavali declaration
- Lahore session (1929)
- Poornaswaraj declaration
- Launching of Civil Disobedience Movement and Dandi march
- First Round Table Congress
- Gandi Irwin Pact
- Lord Willingdon (1931-36)
- Second and Third Round Table conferences
- Communal award (1932) by Ramsay Mac Donald
- Poona pact between Gandhi and Ambedkar(1932)
- Govt. of India Act 1935
- Foundation of Socialist Party by Acharya Narendra Dev and Jai Prakash Narayan (1934)
- Lord Linlithgow (1936-43)
- Formation of congress ministries
- Resignation of Subash Chandra Bose from the President ship of congress
- Formation of Forward Block
- August offer by Linlithgow and its rejection by congress
- Deliverance day by Muslim League (1939)
- Cripps Mission
- Quit India movement
- Lord Wavell (1943-47)
- C.R.Formula by C.Rajagopalchari
- Wavell Plan and Simla Conference
- INA Trials
- Naval Mutiny (1946)
- Cabinet Mission ( Lawrence, Cripps and Alexander)
- Formation of Interim Government and Launching of Direct Action Day
- Lord Mountbatten (1947)
- Partition of India and Independence
