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Encyclopedia: Governor-General of India Source:Wikipedia
The
Governor-General of India
(or from 1858 to 1947 the
Viceroy and Governor-General of India
) was the head of the
British administration
in
India
, and later, after
Indian independence
, the representative of the
British Monarch
. The office was created in 1773, with the title
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The Governor-General of India (or from 1858 to 1947 the Viceroy and Governor-General of India) was the head of the British administration in India, and later, after Indian independence, the representative of the British Monarch. The office was created in 1773, with the title of Governor-General...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_India
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_India
Warren Hastings (December 6 1732 - August 22 1818) was the first governor-general of British India, from 1773 to 1785. He was famously impeached in 1787 for corruption, and acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814. Life Hastings was born at Churchill, Oxfordshire.
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Manas: History and Politics, British India, Warren Hastings |
The first Governor-General of India was Warren Hastings, who occupied that high position from 1773 to 1784. While Clive was content with creating the impression that the Nawab of Bengal remained ...
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Lord Cornwallis as Governor-General of India (1786-93) |
The first Governor-General under the new Act was Lord Cornwallis (the same Cornwallis who had surrendered at Yorktown in 1781). He held office between 1786 and 1793 representing the British ...
www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/india/cornw.htm
www.historyhome.co.uk/c-eight/india/cornw.htm
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James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie -- ... |
Britannica online encyclopedia article on James Andrew Broun Ramsay, marquess and 10th earl of Dalhousie: British governor-general of India from 1847 to 1856, who is accounted the creator both of the ...
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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Kings Newton -- ... |
British soldier and statesman who was governor-general of India in 1844–48. ... In 1844 he succeeded his brother-in-law, Lord Ellenborough, as governor-general of India.
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Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley: Biography and Much More ... |
Richard Colley Wellesley Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess of (1760-1842), the East India Company's (EIC) governor general of India, ... Even before he arrived in India as governor general in April 1798, ...
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Maharaja Hari Singh's Letter to Mountbatten |
Text Of Letter Dated October 26, 1947 From Hari Singh, The Maharaja Of Jammu & Kashmir to Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of India.
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[A] Declaration of War: Proclamation by the Governor General of India, December 13th 1845.