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    The document summarizes important works and events that occurred during the terms of various British Viceroys of India from 1856 to 1948. Some key highlights include Lord Canning establishing high courts in the 1860s, Lord Lytton holding the Delhi Durbar in 1877, Lord Ripon passing factory acts in the 1880s, Lord Curzon creating the North-West Frontier Province, and Lord Mountbatten granting India independence in 1947 according to the June 3rd Plan. The viceroys played an influential role during the British Raj and its transition to Indian independence.

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    The document summarizes important works and events that occurred during the terms of various British Viceroys of India from 1856 to 1948. Some key highlights include Lord Canning establishing high courts in the 1860s, Lord Lytton holding the Delhi Durbar in 1877, Lord Ripon passing factory acts in the 1880s, Lord Curzon creating the North-West Frontier Province, and Lord Mountbatten granting India independence in 1947 according to the June 3rd Plan. The viceroys played an influential role during the British Raj and its transition to Indian independence.

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    IMPORTANT WORKS OF VICEROYS

    Viceroys of India • Followed a policy of rigid non-


    interference in Af ghanistan
    called policy of masterly
    inactivity.
    Lord Canning (1856 - 62)
    • Set up highcourts in Calcutta
    Bombay and Ma dras (1865).
    • Revolt of 1857.
    • Queen Victoria's Proclamation
    and passing of the Indian Act of Lord Mayo (1869-72)
    1858.
    • Withdrawal of the 'Doctrine of • Wahabi and Kuka movements
    Lapse' in 1859,which was passed were active.
    by Lord Dalhousie. • Mayo was murdered
    • Foundation of the Universities of
    Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in
    1857.
    Lord Lytton (1876-80)
    • Indigo Revolt in Bengal in 1859-
    60. • Passing of the Royal Titles Act of
    1876 and the assumption of the
    • White Mutiny by the European
    title empress of India (Quiser-i-
    troops of East India Company in
    hind) by Queen Victoria.
    1859.
    • Bahadurshah II was sent to
    • Holding of Delhi Durbar in 1877
    Rangoon • Passing of the Vernacular Press
    Act of 1878.
    • Enactment of Indian Penalcode.
    • Indian Councils Act of 1861.
    • Passing of the Arms Act of 1878
    • Lowering of maximum age from
    • Enactment of Indian Code of
    21 years to 19. years for the Civil
    Criminal Procedure.
    Services Examination, an attempt
    to prevent Indians from entering
    Lord Elgin (1862- 63) Civil Services
    • Appointment of first Famine
    • Supressed the Wahabi Commission under Sir Richard
    Movement Strachy
    • Started Statutory Civil Service
    Sir John Lawrence • Second Anglo Afghan War in
    1878.
    (1864 - 69)
    • Famine commission was
    constituted.

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    Lord Ripon (1880-84) • A separate state of Bihar and
    Orissa was created in 1911.
    • India's capital was decided to
    • Passing of the first Factory Act in
    1881 for the welfare of child shift to Delhi in 1911 and shifted in
    labour. 1912.
    • Repeal of Vernacular Press Act in • Kamagata Maru incident.
    1882. • 1916, Saddler committee on
    • Foundation of the Local Self Universities appointed.
    Government (1882) • Tilak founded Home Rule
    • Holding of the first decennial and League.
    regular census in 1881 which put Lord Chelmsford (1916-21)
    the total population at 254 million
    • Appointment of an Education • Foundation of women's university
    Commission under Sir William at Poona.
    Hunter in 1882. • Hunter Commission on Jalianwala
    • The Illbert bill Controversy Bagh Massacre.
    • Famine code of 1883 • Chamber of Princes established
    in 1921.
    Lord Dufferin (1884-88) • Home Rule League founded by
    • Foundation of Indian National Annie Besant.
    Congress • Third Afghan war started.
    • Third Anglo Burmese war • Aligarh Muslim University was
    • Commented on the Congress founded in 1920.
    being a microscopic minority

    Lord Curzon (1899- Lord Reading (1921-26)


    1905) • Foundation of Rashtriya Swayam
    Sevak Sangh by K.B. Hedgewar
    • Creation of a new Province at Nagpur in 1925.
    called the North West Frontier • Beginning of Indianisation of the
    Province officers cadre of the Indian Army.
    • Appointment of Universities • Railway Budget was separated
    Commission in 1902 under Sir from General Budget in 1921.
    Thoma Releigh and passing of • Hilton Young Committee on
    Indian Universities Act 1904 currency was appointed in 1926.
    • Partition of Bengal • Viswa Bharati University started by
    Rabindra Nath Tagore.
    Lord Hardinge (1910-1916) • Train Robbery at Kakori.

    • Coronation durbar in 1911 at


    Delhi in honour of George V

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    Lord Irwin (1926-31) • RIN Mutiny (1946)
    • Interim Government was formed
    • Popularly known as Christian (September 20 ,1946)
    Viceroy • Prime Minister of Britain Clement
    • Simon Commission arrives in Atlee announced to give
    Bombay independence to India by June
    • Meerut conspiracy case. 1948.
    • Gandhi started his Dandi March. • Cabinet Mission 1946.
    • Chitagong Armoury Raid. • 16th August 1946, Muslim League
    • First Round Table Conference begins 'Direct Action day
    • Gandhi-Irwin pact.

    Lord Willington (1931-36) Lord Mountbatten (1947-48)


    • Communal Award in 1932 by
    • His plan to make India free on
    Ramsay MacDonald
    August 15,1947 is also known as
    • Third Round Table Conference in
    June 3rd Plan
    1932.
    • First Governor General of free
    • White Paper on Political reforms
    India
    in India was pub lished in 1933,
    • Burma was separated from British
    Empire in 1935.

    Lord Linlithgow (1936-43)


    • August Offer by the Viceroy in
    which he declared dominion
    status as the ultimate goal of
    British policy in India.
    • In 1940 individual Civil
    Disobedience Movement was
    started.
    • 1942 Cripps Mission came
    • Congress starts Quit India
    Movement.

    Lord Wavell (1943-47)


    • Wavell Plan, Shimla conference
    Congress represented by
    Maulana Azad

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