HISTORY 3

HISTORY NOTES: VICEROY of India (PART-I) for RRB NTPC and SSC CHSL EXAM
Lord Canning (1858 – 62)
Rule of company replaced by rule of crown in 1858.White mutiny by Indian troops in (1859).Indian council act 1861.Queen victoria proclamation was read by Lord canning at Allahabad.IPC – 1860
Lord Elgin – I (1862-63)
Death – 1863, Punjab
Sir John Lawrence (1864 – 69)
Bhutan war 1865Introduced First marine telegraph service between India & Europe (1865)Constituted a Famine Commission in chairmanship of Campbell.
Lord Mayo (1869 – 72)
Opening of the Rajkot college at Kathiawar & the Mayo College at Ajmer for political training of Indian Princes.Establishment of statistical survey of India.Establishment of department of agriculture & commerce. (1872)Introduced census in India (1872)Kuka movement (1872)He was executed at portblair.
Lord Northbrook (1872 – 76)
Visit of Prince of wales in 1875.Trial of Gayakwar of Baroda (1875)Famine in Bihar 1874Donate 10,000 Rs. to Mohammadan  Anglo-Oriental College Aligarh (1875).
Lord Litten (1876 – 80)
Known as oven Meredith.Famine of 1876-78, affecting Madras, Bombay, Mysore, Hyderabad, parts of central India & Punjab.Appointment of Famine commission under the presidency of Richard strachey (1878).Royal titles Act – 1876 – Queen Victoria assuming the little of ‘Kaiser-i-hind’.The vernacular press act (1878)2nd Afgan war (1878-80) 1st Delhi Darbar (1877)Indian Arms Act 1878.Reduce Age of civil services 21 to 19 year.
Lord Ripon (1880 – 84)
Repeal of vernacular press act 1882.The First Factory Act – 1881. To improve Labour conditions.Continuation of financial Decentralization (Ripon resolution)Government Resolution on local self government (RIPON RESOLUTION) – 1882.Appointment of Education commission under chairmanship of William Hunter. 1882 Hunter Commission.Ilbert bill controversy (1883 – 84) First continuous Census – 1881Rendition of Mysore.saviour of India
Lord Dufferin (1884 – 88)
Passed Bengal tenancy Act 1885 & Punjab tenancy Act 1887.Third Burmese war (1885 – 86)1885 – Indian National congress established.1887 – Allahabad university established.
Lord Lancedown (1888-94)
Factory Act – 1891 Catagorized civil services into imperial provincial & council Act 1892.Indian council Act 1892.Setting up of Durand line between India & Afganistan. (Now between Pakistan & Afganistan)Prince of wales came India second time.
Lord Elgin – II (1894 – 99)
Two British officials assassinated by chapekar brothers (1897).Swami vivekanand established math at Vellur & Remkrishna mission.
Lord Curzon (1899 – 1905)

Appointment of police commission (1902) under sir Andrew Frazer to review police Administration.Appointment of universities commission (1902) & passing of Indian universities Act 1904.Establishment of department of commerce & Industries.Calcutta corporation act (1899) Ancient monuments preservation Act (1904)Partition of Bengal (1905)Curzon kitchner controversy.Young husbands mission to tibbet (1904)Irrigation commission; chairmanship of Mancreef.Established C.I.D in police.Cooperative committee act 1904.