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🇮🇳 Governor Generals of India (Before 1858)

Name	Tenure	Major Contributions
Warren Hastings	1773–1785	First Governor-General; Regulating Act 1773; Asiatic Society of Bengal
Lord Cornwallis	1786–1793	Cornwallis Code; Permanent Settlement of Bengal
Lord Wellesley	1798–1805	Subsidiary Alliance system
Lord William Bentinck	1828–1835	Abolition of Sati; English education introduced
Lord Dalhousie	1848–1856	Doctrine of Lapse; Railways and Telegraph; Widow Remarriage Act 1856

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👑 Viceroys of India (After 1858)

Name	Tenure	Major Contributions
Lord Canning	1856–1862	First Viceroy; Revolt of 1857; Indian Councils Act 1861
Lord Lytton	1876–1880	Vernacular Press Act; Second Afghan War
Lord Ripon	1880–1884	Local Self-Government; Ilbert Bill controversy
Lord Curzon	1899–1905	Partition of Bengal (1905); Archaeological Survey revived
Lord Minto	1905–1910	Minto-Morley Reforms (1909)
Lord Hardinge	1910–1916	Capital shifted to Delhi (1911)
Lord Chelmsford	1916–1921	Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms (1919); Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Lord Irwin	1926–1931	Gandhi-Irwin Pact; Civil Disobedience Movement
Lord Linlithgow	1936–1944	Quit India Movement (1942); Longest tenure
Lord Wavell	1944–1947	Wavell Plan; Simla Conference
Lord Mountbatten	1947	Last Viceroy; Oversaw Partition and Independence

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Viceroy/ Governor General

Work done

Warren Hasting

1st Governor General Bengal, Ended dual system of gov (Dyarchy) in bengal

Lord Canning

1st Viceroy, Widow Remarriage

Dalhosie

Doctorine of lapse, Father of Indian Railway

Cornwalis

Father of Indian Civil Services, Permanent settlement

Irwin

Child Marraige Restraint Act passed

Ripon

Ilbert Bill

William Bentick

Abolished Sati

Lord Curzon

Partition of bengal 1905, restored Monuments