1. India Under the English East India Company: 1
Warren Hastings (1772-1785)
2. Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793) 15
3. The Marquess of Wellesley (1798-1805) 24
4. Lord Hastings (1813-1823) 37
5. Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835) 46
6. Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856) 56
7. Revenue Administration and Economic Policy of the British 66
8. Educational and Social Reforms 76
9. Palayakkarar Rebellion 86
10. Vellore Mutiny 95
11. The Great Revolt of 1857 102
12. British India After 1858: Lord Lytton (1876-1880),
Lord Ripon (1880-1884) And Lord Curzon (1899-1905) 114
13. Socio-Religious Reform Movements 125
14. Indian National Movement (1885-1905) 139
15. Indian National Movement (1905-1916) 148
16. The Indian National Movement (1917-1947) 158
17. Role of Tamil Nadu in the Indian National Movement 177
18. The Justice Party Rule 186
19. Constitutional Development (1858 – 1947) 194
20. India After Independence 206
SOME OF THE IMPORTANT GOVERNOR-GENERALS
GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF FORT WILLIAM IN BENGAL
(Regulating Act of 1773)
Name Period
| Warren Hastings | 1774-1785 |
| Earl (Marquess) Cornwallis Richard Wellesley, Earl of Mornington Marquess Cornwallis (Second time Govenor General) Marquess of Hastings (Earl of Moira) Lord William Bentinck GOVERNORS-GENERAL OF INDIA | 1786-1793 1798-1805 1805 1813-1823 1828-1833 |
| (Charter Act of 1833) | |
| Lord William Bentinck | 1833-1835 |
| Earl of Dalhousie | 1848-1856 |
| Lord Canning | 1856-1858 |
| GOVERNORS-GENERAL AND VICEROYS | |
| (Act of 1858) | |
| Lord Canning | 1858-1862 |
| Baron (Earl of) Lytton I | 1876-1880 |
| Marquess of Ripon | 1880-1884 |
| Lord Curzon | 1899-1904 |
| Baron Chelmsford | 1916-1921 |
| Lord Irwin | 1926-1931 |
| Earl of Willingdon | 1931-1934 |
| Marquess of Linlithgow | 1934-1936 |
| Mountbatten | 24 March 1947 – 15 August 1947 |
| AFTER INDEPENDENCE | |
| Mountbatten | 1947-1948 |
| Rajagopalachari | 1948-1950 |
