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  2. List of governors-general of India - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. C. Rajagopalachari - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:Viceroys of India - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin - Wikipedia

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    Victor Alexander Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, 13th Earl of Kincardine, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (16 May 1849 – 18 January 1917), known as Lord Bruce until 1863, was a right-wing British Liberal politician who served as Viceroy of India from 1894 to 1899.

  7. Governor-General of India - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Viceroy's Executive Council - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms - Wikipedia

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    The reforms take their name from Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India from 1917 to 1922, and Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921. The reforms were outlined in the Montagu–Chelmsford Report, prepared in 1918, and formed the basis of the Government of India Act 1919.