Who was the first governor general of india during british rule?
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Warren Hastings
Governor-General of India
Who was the first governor general of india during british rule?
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The <b>Governor</b>-<b>general of India</b> was the representative of the monarch of the ... <b>In</b> 
1773, motivated by corruption <b>in</b> the Company, the <b>British</b> government ... of 
Bengal were appointed to <b>rule</b> over the Presidency of Fort William <b>in</b> Bengal. The 
<b>first governor</b>-<b>general</b> and Council were named <b>in</b> the Act. After the <b>Indian</b> Rebellion of 1857, the company <b>rule</b> was brought to an end, but 
the <b>British India</b> along with princely states came <b>under</b> the direct <b>rule</b> of the&nbsp;... The <b>British Raj</b> was the rule by the British Crown on the <b>Indian</b> subcontinent from 
1858 to 1947. ... <b>In general</b>, the term &quot;British <b>India</b>&quot; had been used (and is still 
used) to refer ... The Presidencies and the <b>first</b> eight provinces were each <b>under</b> a 
<b>Governor</b>, <b>while</b> the latter six provinces were each <b>under</b> a Chief Commissioner. Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English 
statesman, was the <b>first</b> Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the 
head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the <b>first</b> de facto <b>Governor</b>-
<b>General of India</b> from 1774 to 1785. ... He joined the <b>British</b> East <b>India</b> Company 
<b>in</b> 1750 as a clerk and sailed out to&nbsp;... The Union of <b>India</b>, also called the Dominion of <b>India</b>, was an independent 
dominion <b>in</b> the British ... Two <b>governors</b>-<b>general</b> held office <b>between</b> 
independence and <b>India&#39;s</b> ... a platform <b>for</b> cooperation <b>between</b> the countries 
that had been part of the <b>British Empire</b>. ... Rajendra Prasad became the <b>first</b> 
President of <b>India</b>. Company <b>rule in India</b> is the <b>rule</b> or dominion of the <b>British</b> East <b>India</b> Company 
over parts of the <b>Indian</b>&nbsp;... From 1760, a governor represented the British East <b>India</b> Company <b>in</b> which had 
been granted ... Below is a list of the governors of Bengal <b>during</b> the <b>British Raj</b>: ... 
James Broun-Ramsay, <b>1st</b> Marquess of Dalhousie, 1848, 1856. <b>Under</b> the 
Charter Act 1853 the <b>Governor General of India</b> was relieved of his concurrent 
duties&nbsp;... <b>During</b> the period of the Company rule <b>in India</b> and the <b>British Raj</b>, the 
Commander-<b>in</b>-Chief, ... Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings by 
Hugh Douglas Hamilton.jpg. Longest ... The Commander-<b>in</b>-Chief and most of his 
staff were based at GHQ <b>India</b>, and liaised with the civilian <b>Governor</b>-<b>General of</b> 
<b>India</b>. The <b>Indian</b> Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising 
<b>in India in</b> 1857–58 against the <b>rule</b> of the <b>British</b> East <b>India</b> Company, which ... <b>In</b> 
1772, when Warren Hastings was appointed <b>India&#39;s first Governor</b>-<b>General</b>, one&nbsp;... The Imperial Legislative Council was a legislature <b>for British India</b> from 1861 to 
1947. It succeeded the Council of the <b>Governor</b>-<b>General of India</b>, and was 
succeeded by the Constituent Assembly of <b>India</b> and after 1950, was succeeded 
by Parliament of <b>India</b>. <b>During</b> the <b>rule</b> of the East <b>India</b> Company, the council of 
the ... The <b>first</b> three members were permitted to participate on all occasions, but 
the&nbsp;...
Warren Hastings
List of governors-general of India