Indian History Quiz: Viceroys of India (1858–1947) and Major Events

The Government of India Act of 1858 transferred the administration of India from the East India Company to the Crown and renamed the Governor-General of India as the Viceroy; Canning, who was already Governor-General when the Revolt of 1857 broke out, became the first Viceroy in 1858 and held the…

He was stabbed to death by Sher Ali Afridi, a convict, during a visit to the penal settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands in February 1872, and remains the only Viceroy killed in office.

The Vernacular Press Act of 1878 required the publisher of an Indian language newspaper to execute a bond and allowed the government to seize the press if seditious matter was printed, while English newspapers were left untouched; it was therefore called the gagging Act.

His Resolution on Local Self-Government of 1882 proposed boards for rural and urban areas with a majority of elected non-official members and a non-official chairman, and asked that they be given control over local funds, which is why he is remembered as the father of local self-government in India.

He announced the partition of the Bengal Presidency in July 1905 and it came into force on 16 October 1905, creating the province of Eastern Bengal and Assam; the official reason was administrative convenience, but the real purpose was to divide the Hindu and Muslim population and weaken the nationalist…

The transfer of the capital from Calcutta to Delhi was announced by King George V at the Delhi Durbar of December 1911, during Hardinge's term, and the same Durbar annulled the partition of Bengal.

The Rowlatt Act was passed in March 1919 under him, and on 13 April 1919 General Dyer ordered troops to fire on an unarmed gathering at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar; the Hunter Committee was appointed to inquire into it and Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in protest.

The movement began with the Dandi March of March 1930 against the salt law, and after the first Round Table Conference the Viceroy Lord Irwin negotiated a pact with Mahatma Gandhi on 5 March 1931: political prisoners were to be released, the making of salt for domestic use on the…

During it the provincial elections of 1937 were held under the Government of India Act of 1935, India was taken into the Second World War without consulting the legislatures and the Congress ministries resigned in 1939, the Muslim League passed the Lahore Resolution of 1940, the August Offer was made…

He took charge in March 1947, announced the plan of 3 June 1947 under which the country was divided, and after the Indian Independence Act of 1947 came into force he continued as the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India until June 1948.