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The charter Act 1833 re-designated the office with the title of Governor-General of India. William Bentinck was the first to be designated as the Governor-general of India in 1833. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the company rule was brought to an end, but the British India along with princely states came under the direct rule of the ...
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/empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the monarch of India.
In the years before 1885, the British Governor-General of India was represented in Kashmir by an Officer-on-Special-Duty, who had only limited functions. The Government of British India made many attempts in the days of Ranbir Singh to raise the status of this Officer to that of a fully-fledged Political Resident. It was concerned that having ...
William Butterworth Bayley (1782–1860) was acting Governor-General of India during the period March–July 1828. Bayley was a member of the Bengal Civil Service (1799–1830) and a director and chairman of the British East India Company (1834–1858).
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← 1884 1883 1882 1885 in India → 1886 1887 1888 Centuries: 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st Decades: 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s See also: List of years in India Timeline of Indian history Events in the year 1885 in India. Incumbents Empress of India – Queen Victoria Viceroy of India – The Earl of Dufferin Events National income - ₹ 3,991 million 24 June – Lord Randolph Churchill becomes ...
Life of Lord Roberts (1914) [1] The Life of Lord Clive (2 vols., 1918) [1] Selections from the State Papers of the Governors-General of India: Lord Cornwallis (2 vols., 1926) [1] Other works were: The Famine in India (1897), pamphlet [1] Articles on the deforestation of India in the Bombay Gazette. [2]
He was Governor of Bombay between 1880 and 1885. [6] [2] He was appointed an Extra Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1885. [7] Following his retirement, he returned to the House of Commons, as Member of Parliament for Manchester North East, which he represented between 1885 and 1906.