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Although the Proclamation of 1858 announcing the assumption of the government of India by the Crown referred to Lord Canning as "first Viceroy and Governor-General", none of the Warrants appointing his successors referred to them as 'Viceroys', and the title, which was frequently used in Warrants dealing with precedence and in public ...
Uparaja [a] is a noble title reserved for the viceroy in India and the Buddhist dynasties in Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, as well as some of their minor tributary kingdoms. It is ultimately from Sanskrit उपराज upa-rāja equivalent to sub and rex respectively in Latin. [1]
It houses some of the most ancient articles and photographs going back to the times of the British rule in India. 1 The interiors at Viceregal Lodge (IIAS), Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India. The Viceregal Lodge was designed by British architect Henry Irwin and built in the Jacobethan style during Lord Dufferin’s tenure as Viceroy. Its ...
Also see Category:Governors-general of India. This category includes Viceroys of India between 1858 and 1947. All Viceroys were also Governors-General of India. After partition of the Indian Empire in 1947 the Muslim areas were taken over by a Governor-General of Pakistan but a Governor-General of India still continued to exist.
The Governor-General of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the emperor or empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the monarch of India.
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And if one name you like isn’t going to work, just keep working your way down our list — we’ve compiled 200 from which to choose. Most popular Indian boy names (In order of popularity as of ...
Viceroy John Lawrence's executive council in Simla, 1864. The Viceroy's Executive Council, formerly known as Council of Four and officially known as the Council of the Governor-General of India (since 1858), was an advisory body and cabinet of the Governor-General of India, also known as Viceroy. It existed from 1773 to 1947 in some form or the ...