14. Lord Chelmsford (1916-1921)

• Formation of Home Rule Leagues by Annie Besant and Tilak (1916).

• Lucknow session of the Congress (1916).

• Lucknow pact between the Congress and Muslim League (1916).

• Foundation of Sabarmati Ashram (1916) after Gandhi’s return; launch of Champaran Satyagraha (1916), Kheda Satyagraha (1918), and Satyagraha at Ahmedabad (1918).

• Montagu’s August Declaration (1917).

• Government of India Act (1919).

• The Rowlatt Act (1919).

• Jallianwalla Bagh massacre (1919).

• Launch of Non-Cooperation and Khilafat Movements.

• Foundation of Women’s University at Poona (1916) and appointment of Saddler’s Commission (1917) for reforms in educational policy.

• Death of Tilak (August 1, 1920).

• Appointment of S.P. Sinha as governor of Bihar (the first Indian to become a governor).

15. Lord Reading (1921-1926)

• Chauri Chaura incident (February 5, 1922) and the subsequent withdrawal of Non-Cooperation Movement.

• Moplah rebellion in Kerala (1921).

• Repeal of the Press Act of 1910 and the Rowlatt Act of 1919.

• Kakori train robbery (1925).

• Murder of Swami Shraddhanand (1926).

• Establishment of Swaraj Party by C.R. Das and Motilal Nehru (1922).

• Decision to hold simultaneous examinations for the ICS both in Delhi and London, with effect from 1923.

16. Lord Irwin (1926-1931)

• Visit of Simon Commission to India (1928) and the boycott of the commission by the Indians.

• An All-Parties Conference held at Lucknow (1928) for suggestions for the (future) Constitution of India, the report of which was called the Nehru Report or the Nehru Constitution.

• Appointment of the Harcourt Butler Indian States Commission (1927).

• Murder of Saunders, the assistant superintendent of police of Lahore; bomb blast in the Assembly Hall of Delhi (1929); the Lahore Conspiracy Case and death of Jatin Das after prolonged hunger strike (1929), and bomb accident in train in Delhi (1929).

• Lahore session of the Congress (1929); Purna Swaraj Resolution.

• Dandi March (March 12, 1930) by Gandhi to launch the Civil Disobedience Movement.

• ‘Deepavali Declaration’ by Lord Irwin (1929).

• Boycott of the First Round Table Conference (1930), Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931) and suspension of Civil Disobedience Movement.

17. Lord Willingdon (1931-1936)

• Second Round Table Conference (1931) and failure of the conference, resumption of Civil Disobedience Movement.

• Announcement of Communal Award (1932) under which separate communal electorates were set up.

• ‘Fast unto death’ by Gandhi in Yeravada prison, broken after the Poona Pact (1932).

• Third Round Table Conference (1932).

• Launch of Individual Civil Disobedience (1933).

• The Government of India Act of 1935.

• Establishment of All India Kisan Sabha (1936) and Congress Socialist Party by Acharya Narendra Dev and Jayaprakash Narayan (1934).

• Burma separated from India (1935).

18. Lord Linlithgow (1936-1944)

• First general elections (1936-37); Congress attained absolute majority.

• Resignation of the Congress ministries after the outbreak of the Second World War (1939).

• Subhash Chandra Bose elected as the president of Congress at the fifty-first session of the Congress (1938).

• Resignation of Bose in 1939 and formation of the Forward Bloc (1939).

• Lahore Resolution (March 1940) by the Muslim League, demand for separate state for Muslims.

• ‘August Offer’ (1940) by the viceroy; its criticism by the Congress and endorsement by the Mulsim League.

• Winston Churchill elected prime minister of England (1940).

• Escape of Subhash Chandra Bose from India (1941) and organisation of the Indian National Army.

• Cripps Mission’s Cripps Plan to offer dominion status to India and setting up of a Constituent Assembly; its rejection by the Congress.

• Passing of the ‘Quit India Resolution’ by the Congress (1942); outbreak of ‘August Revolution’; or Revolt of 1942 after the arrest of national leaders.

• ‘Divide and Quit’ slogan at the Karachi session (1944) of the Muslim League.

19. Lord Wavell (1944-1947)

• C. Rajagopalachari’s CR Formula (1944), failure of Gandhi-Jinnah talks (1944).

• Wavell Plan and the Shimla Conference (1942).

• End of Second World War (1945).

• Proposals of the Cabinet Mission (1946) and its acceptance by the Congress.

• Observance of ‘Direct Action Day’ (August 16, 1948) by the Muslim League.

• Elections to the Constituent Assembly, formation of Interim Government by the Congress (September 1946).

• Announcement of end of British rule in India by Clement Attlee (prime minister of England) on February 20, 1947.

20. Lord Mountbatten (1947-1948)

• June Third Plan (June 3, 1947) announced.

• Introduction of Indian Independence Bill in the House of Commons.

• Appointment of two boundary commissions under Sir Cyril Radcliff for the partition of Bengal and Punjab.