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The Government of India Act 1858 created the office of Secretary of State for India in 1858 to oversee the affairs of India, which was advised by a new Council of India with 15 members (based in London). The existing Council of Four was formally renamed as the Council of Governor-General of India or Executive Council of India.
Hardinge and his wife Winifred during his term as Viceroy of India, ca. 1910–1916. His tenure was a memorable one and included the visit of King George V and the Delhi Durbar of 1911, as well as the move of the capital from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911.
11 July 1917 – Chandrakant T. Patel, cotton scientist (died 1990). 3 September 1917 – G. V. Iyer, film director (died 2003). 19 November – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, assassinated (died 1984). [5] 29 December – Ramanand Sagar, film director (died 2005).
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.
During his time as Viceroy, famine broke out in India, in which Elgin reportedly admitted that up to 4.5 million people died. [3] Other estimates have put the death toll at 11 million people. [ 3 ] His administration in India was otherwise notable for the Afridi frontier risings of 1897–1898.
In 1917, he was elected chairman of the municipality and served from 1917 to 1919 [20] [25] during which time he was responsible for the election of the first Dalit member of the Salem municipality. In 1917, he defended Indian independence activist P. Varadarajulu Naidu against charges of sedition [ 26 ] and two years later participated in the ...
In January 1899 Curzon was appointed as Viceroy of India. [4] He was created a baron in the peerage of Ireland as Baron Curzon of Kedleston, in the County of Derby, [28] on his appointment. (The title was "Curzon of Kedleston" rather than simply "Curzon" because his kinsmen the Earls Howe were already Viscounts and Barons Curzon.)
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 ...