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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.
Several governors, lieutenant governors and administrators pose with the President of India at the ‘2024 Governors Conference’, at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi in August 2024. In the Republic of India, according to the Article 154 of Constitution of India, a governor is the constitutional head of each of the twenty-eight states.
List of governors of the United Provinces of British India (1921–1937, United Kingdom) List of governors of the United Provinces (1937–1950, United Kingdom) List of colonial governors and presidents of Madras Presidency (1746–1749, French East India Company) (1746–1789, British East India Company) (1785–1947, United Kingdom)
Also see Category:Viceroys of India) This category includes both British Governors-General of India before 1858 and the Governors-General of India between 1947 and 1950. All Viceroys were also Governors-General. In 1950 the duties and functions of the King of India and Governor-General of India were merged in to a President of India.
The Governor-General was appointed for an indefinite term, serving at the pleasure of the Monarch. Following independence in 1947, the Governor-General was appointed solely on the advice of the Cabinet of India without the involvement of the British government.
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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.