GOVERNOR GENERALS OF BENGAL
GOVERNOR-GENERALS OF BENGAL
▪️ WarrenHastings(AD1774-85) ✍️Brought the dual government to an end by the Regulating Act, 1773.
✍️The Act of 1781 madeclear demarcation between the jurisdiction of the Governor General-in-Council and Supreme Court at Calcutta.
✍️Pitt’s India Act (1784),
✍️Rohilla War (1774),
✍️First Maratha War (1775-1782)
✍️Treaty of Salbai with Marathas (1782)
✍️Second Mysore War (1780-84).
✍️Foundation of Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784) in Calcutta by Sir William Jones.
✍️English translations of Bhagavad Gita by Charles Wilkins in 1785.
LordCornwallis (AD1786-93)
✍️Third Mysore War (1790-92) and Treaty of Seringapatnam (1792).
✍️ Introduced Permanent Settlement in Bengal and Bihar (1793).
✍️He is called the Father of Civil Services in India
✍️Introduced judicial reforms by separating revenue administration from judicial administration and established a system of circles (thanas, headed by a Daroga (an Indian). ✍️Translation of Abhigyan Shakuntalam in English by William Jones in 1789.
Sir JohnShore(AD1793-98)
✍️Played an important role in the introduction of Permanent Settlement.
✍️Battle of Kharda between the Nizams and the Marathas (1795).
LordWellesley (AD1798-1805) ✍️Introduction of the Subsidiary Alliance (1798), first alliance with Nizam of Hyderabad followed by Mysore, Tanjore, Awadh, the Peshwa, the Bhonsle and the Scindia.
✍️Treaty of Bassein (1802) and the Second Maratha War.
George Barlow(1805-07)
✍️Vellore Mutiny (1806)
LordMintoI(AD1807-13)
✍️Concluded the Treaty of Amritsar with Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1809).
✍️Charter Act of 1813 was passed.
LordHasting(AD1813-23)
✍️Anglo Nepal War (1814-1816) and Treaty of Sagauli (1816).
✍️Third Maratha War (1817-18) dissolution of Maratha confederacy and creation of Bombay Presidency.
✍️Pindari War and establishment of Ryotwari System by Thomas Munro (1820).
Lord Amherst(AD1823-28)
✍️First Burmese War (1824-26), Treaty of Yandaboo (1826)
✍️capture of Bharatpur (1826).
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