EAST INDIA COMPANY RULE OF INDIA 1773-TO 1856-WHEN BRITISH GOVERNMENT TOOK OVER

Governor-General	Period of Tenure	Events
Warren Hastings	20 October 1773–1 February 1785	Bengal famine of 1770 (1769–1773) Rohilla War (1773–1774) First Anglo-Maratha War (1777–1783) Chalisa famine (1783–84) Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–1784)
Charles Cornwallis	12 September 1786–28 October 1793	Cornwallis Code (1793) Permanent Settlement Cochin become semi-protected States under British (1791) Third Anglo-Mysore War (1789–1792) Doji bara famine (1791–92) Separation of judicial and revenue administrations
John Shore	28 October 1793–March 1798	East India Company Army reorganized and down-sized. Jaipur (1794) & Travancore (1795) come under British protection. Andaman Islands occupied (1796) Company took control of coastal region Ceylon fromDutch (1796).
Richard Wellesley	18 May 1798–30 July 1805	Nizam of Hyderabad becomes first State to signSubsidiary alliance introduced by Wellesley (1798). Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1798–1799) Nawab of Oudh cedes Gorakhpur and Rohilkhanddivisions; Allahabad, Fatehpur, Cawnpore, Etawah,Mainpuri, Etah districts; part of Mirzapur; and terai ofKumaun (Ceded Provinces, 1801) Treaty of Bassein signed by Peshwa Baji Rao IIaccepting Subsidiary Alliance Battle of Delhi (1803). Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–1805) Remainder of Doab and Agra division, parts ofBundelkhand annexed from Maratha Empire (1805). Ceded and Conquered Provinces established (1805)
Charles Cornwallis(second term)	30 July 1805–5 October 1805	Financial strain in East India Company after costly campaigns. Cornwallis reappointed to bring peace, but dies inGhazipur.
George Hilario Barlow(locum tenens)	10 October 1805–31 July 1807	Vellore Mutiny (July 10, 1806)
Lord Minto	31 July 1807–4 October 1813	Invasion of Java Occupation of Mauritius
Marquess of Hastings	4 October 1813–9 January 1823	Anglo-Nepal War of 1814 Annexation of Kumaon, Garhwal, and east Sikkim. Cis-Sutlej states (1815). Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–1818) States of Rajputana accept British suzerainty (1817). Singapore was founded (1818). Cutch accepts British suzerainty (1818). Gaikwads of Baroda accept British suzerainty (1819). Central India Agency (1819).
Lord Amherst	1 August 1823–13 March 1828	First Anglo–Burmese War (1823–1826) Annexation of Assam, Manipur, Arakan, andTenasserim from Burma
William Bentinck	4 July 1828–20 March 1835	Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829 Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–1848 Mysore State goes under British administration (1831–1881) Bahawalpur accepts British Suzerainty (1833) Coorg annexed (1834).
Lord Auckland	4 March 1836–28 February 1842	North-Western Provinces established (1836) Post Offices were established (1837) Agra famine of 1837–38 Aden is captured by Company (1839)[9] First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) Massacre of Elphinstone's army (1842).
Lord Ellenborough	28 February 1842–June 1844	First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) Annexation of Sindh (1843) Indian Slavery Act, 1843
Henry Hardinge	23 July 1844–12 January 1848	First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846) Sikhs cede Jullundur Doab, Hazara, and Kashmir to the British under Treaty of Lahore (1846) Sale of Kashmir to Gulab Singh of Jammu under Treaty of Amritsar (1846).
Marquess of Dalhousie	12 January 1848–28 February 1856	Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) Annexation of Punjab and North-West Frontier Province(1849) Construction begins on Indian Railways (1850) Caste Disabilities Removal Act, 1850 First telegraph line laid in India (1851) Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852–1853) Annexation of Lower Burma Great Ganges Canal opened (1854) Annexation of Satara (1848), Jaipur and Sambalpur(1849), Nagpur and Jhansi (1854) under Doctrine of Lapse. Annexation of Berar (1853) and Awadh (1856). Postage Stamps for India were introduced. (1854). Public Telegram services starts operation (1855).
Charles Canning	28 February 1856–1 November 1858	Hindu Widows Remarriage Act (July 25, 1856) First Indian universities founded (January–September 1857) Indian Rebellion of 1857 (10 May 1857–20 June 1858) largely in North-Western Provinces and Oudh Liquidation of the English East India Company underGovernment of India Act 1858