1. Lord Canning (1858-1862)

• Transfer of control from East India Company to the Crown, the Government of India Act, 1858.

• ‘White Mutiny’ by European troops in 1859.

• Indian Councils Act of 1861.

2. Lord Elgin I (1862-1863)

• Wahabi Movement.

3. Lord John Lawrence (1864-1869)

• Bhutan War (1865).

• Setting up of the High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras (1865).

4. Lord Mayo (1869-1872)

• Opening of the Rajkot College in Kathiawar and the Mayo College at Ajmer for political training of Indian princes.

• Establishment of Statistical Survey of India.

• Establishment of Department of Agriculture and Commerce.

• Introduction of state railways.

5. Lord Northbrook (1872-1876)

• Visit of Prince of Wales in 1875.

• Trial of Gaekwar of Baroda.

• Kuka Movement in Punjab.

6. Lord Lytton (1876-1880)

• Famine of 1876-78 affecting Madras, Bombay, Mysore, Hyderabad, parts of central India and Punjab; appointment of Famine Commission under the presidency of Richard Strachey (1878).

• Royal Titles Act (1876), Queen Victoria assuming the title of ‘Kaiser-i-Hind’ or Queen Empress of India.

• The Vernacular Press Act (1878).

• The Arms Act (1878).

• The Second Afghan War (1878-80).

7. Lord Ripon (1880-1884)

• Repeal of the Vernacular Press Act (1882).

• The first Factory Act (1881) to improve labour conditions.

• Continuation of financial decentralisation.

• Government resolution on local self-government (1882).

• Appointment of Education Commission under chairmanship of Sir William Hunter (1882).

• The Ilbert Bill controversy (1883-84).

• Rendition of Mysore.

8. Lord Dufferin (1884-1888)

• The Third Burmese War (1885-86).

• Establishment of the Indian National Congress.

9. Lord Lansdowne (1888-1894)

• Factory Act (1891).

• Categorisation of civil services into imperial, provisional and subordinate.

• Indian Councils Act (1892).

• Setting up of Durand Commission (1893) to define the Durand Line between India and Afghanistan (now between Pakistan and Afghanistan; a small portion of the line touches India in Pakistan occupied Kashmir).

10. Lord Elgin II (1894-1899)

• Two British officials assassinated by Chapekar brothers (1897).

11. Lord Curzon (1899-1905)

• Appointment of Police Commission (1902) under Sir Andrew Frazer to review police administration.

• Appointment of Universities Commission (1902) and passing of Indian Universities Act (1904).

• Establishment of Department of Commerce and Industry.

• Calcutta Corporation Act (1899).

• Ancient Monuments Preservation Act (1904).

• Partition of Bengal (1905).

• Curzon-Kitchener controversy.

• Younghusband’s Mission to Tibet (1904).

12. Lord Minto II (1905-1910)

• Popularisation of anti-partition and Swadeshi Movements.

• Split in Congress in the annual session of 1907 in Surat.

• Establishment of Muslim League by Aga Khan (1906).

13. Lord Hardinge II (1910-1916)

• Creation of Bengal Presidency (like Bombay and Madras) in 1911.

• Transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi (1911).

• Establishment of the Hindu Mahasabha (1915) by Madan Mohan Malaviya.

• Coronation durbar of King George V held in Delhi (1911).