Governor-General of India
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The governor-general of India was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the emperor or empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative
Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of Fort William from 1773 to 1785.
Lord Curzon in his robes as viceroy of India, a post he held from 1899 to 1905.
Lord Mountbatten addressing the Chamber of Princes as Crown Representative in the 1940s
The Viceregal Lodge in Simla, built in 1888, was the summer residence of the viceroy of India
Warren Hastings
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Warren Hastings was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William, the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first governor-general o
Governor-General of India
…provisional governor-general was sometimes appointed until a new holder of the office could be chosen. The first governor-general in India (of Bengal) was Warren Hastings, the first official governor-general of British India was Lord William Bentinck, and the first governor-general of the Dominion of India was Lord…
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1766–1767
c. 1784 painting of Hastings with Marian in their garden at Alipore by Johan Zoffany
Portrait of Hastings by Tilly Kettle
The trial of Warren Hastings in Westminster Hall, 1788