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Name of Committees/
Commissions
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Year
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Warren Hastings (1773-1785)
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- Regulating Act of 1773
- Pitt’s India Act of 1784
- The Rohilla War of 1774
- The First Maratha War in 1775-82 and the Treaty
of Salbai in 1782
- Second Mysore War in 1780-84
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Lord Cornwallis (1786-1793)
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- Third Mysore War (1790-92) and Treaty of
Seringapatam (1792)
- Cornwallis Code (1793)
- Permanent Settlement of Bengal, 1793
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Lord Wellesley (1798-1805)
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- Introduction of the Subsidiary Alliance System
(1798)
- Fourth Mysore War (1799)
- Second Maratha War (1803-05)
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Lord Minto I (1807-1813)
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- Treaty of Amritsar with Ranjit Singh (1809)
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Lord Hastings (1813-1823)
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- Anglo-Nepal War (1814-16) and the Treaty of
Sagauli, 1816
- Third Maratha War (1817-19) and dissolution of Maratha
Confederacy
- Establishment of Ryotwari System (1820)
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Lord Amherst (1823-1828)
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- First Burmese War (1824-1826)
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Lord William Bentinck (1828-1835)
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- Abolition of Sati System (1829)
- Charter Act of 1833
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Lord Auckland (1836-1842)
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- First Afghan War (1838-42)
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Lord Hardinge I (1844-1848)
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- First Anglo-Sikh War (1845-46) and the Treaty
of Lahore (1846).
- Social reforms like the abolition of female
infanticide
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Lord Dalhousie (1848-1856)
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- Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848-49)
- The annexation of Lower Burma (1852)
- Introduction of the Doctrine of Lapse
- Wood’s Despatch 1854
- Laying down of first railway line connecting
Bombay and Thane in 1853
- Laying down of first railway line connecting
Bombay and Thane in 1853
- Establishment of PWD
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Lord Canning (1856-1862)
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- Revolt of 1857
- Establishment of three universities at
Calcutta, Madras and Bombay in 1857
- Abolition of East India Company and transfer of
control to the Crown by the Government of India Act, 1858
- Indian Councils Act of 1861
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Lord John Lawrence (1864-1869)
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- Bhutan War (1865)
- Establishment of the High Courts at Calcutta,
Bombay and Madras (1865)
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Lord Lytton (1876-1880)
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- The Vernacular Press Act (1878)
- The Arms Act (1878)
- The Second Afghan War (1878-80)
- Queen Victoria assumed the title of
‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ or Queen Empress of India
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Lord Ripon (1880-1884)
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- Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882)
- The first Factory Act (1881)
- Government resolution on local self-government
(1882)
- The Ilbert Bill controversy (1883-84)
- Hunter Commission on education (1882)
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Lord Dufferin (1884-1888)
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- The Third Burmese War (1885-86).
- Establishment of the Indian National Congress
(1885)
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Lord Lansdowne
(1888-1894)
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- Factory Act (1891).
- Indian Councils Act
(1892).
- Setting up of
Durand Commission (1893)
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Lord Curzon (1899-1905)
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- Appointment of Police Commission (1902)
- Appointment of Universities Commission (1902)
- Indian Universities Act (1904).
- Partition of Bengal (1905)
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Lord Minto II (1905-1910)
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- Swadeshi Movements. (1905-11)
- Surat Split of Congress (1907)
- Establishment of Muslim League (1906)
- Morley-Minto Reforms(1909)
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Lord Hardinge II (1910-1916)
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- Annulment of Partition of Bengal (1911)
- Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi
(1911).
- Establishment of the Hindu Mahasabha (1915)
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Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921)
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- Lucknow pact (1916)
- Champaran Satyagraha (1917)
- Montagu’s August Declaration (1917)
- Government of India Act (1919)
- The Rowlatt Act (1919)
- JallianwallaBagh massacre (1919)
- Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat
Movements
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Lord Reading (1921-1926)
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- ChauriChaura incident (1922)
- Withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement (1922)
- Establishment of Swaraj Party(1922)
- Kakori train robbery (1925)
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Lord Irwin (1926-1931)
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- Simon Commission to India (1927)
- Harcourt Butler Indian States Commission (1927)
- Nehru Report (1928)
- Deepavali Declaration (1929)
- Lahore session of the Congress (PurnaSwaraj
Resolution) 1929
- Dandi March and the Civil Disobedience Movement
(1930)
- First Round Table Conference (1930)
- Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931)
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Lord Willingdon (1931-1936)
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- Communal Award (1932)
- Second & Third Round Table Conference
(1932)
- Poona Pact (1932)
- Government of India Act of 1935
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Lord Linlithgow (1936-1944)
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- Resignation of the Congress ministries after
the outbreak of the Second World War (1939)
- Tripuri Crisis & formation of Forward Bloc
(1939)
- Lahore Resolution of the Muslim League (demand
for a separate state for Muslims) 1940
- ‘August Offer’ (1940)
- Formation of the Indian National Army (1941)
- Cripps Mission (1942)
- Quit India Movement (1942)
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Lord Wavell (1944-1947)
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- C. Rajagopalachari’s CR Formula (1944)
- Wavell Plan and the Simla Conference (1942)
- Cabinet Mission (1946)
- Direct Action Day (1946)
- Announcement of end of British rule in India by
Clement Attlee (1947)
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Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)
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- June Third Plan (1947)
- Redcliff commission (1947)
- India’s Independence (15 August 1947)
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Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1948-1950)
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- Last Governor-General of India, before the
office, was permanently abolished in 1950
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