Warren Hastings was the first Governor General of Bengal.As the first governor-general of Bengal, Hastings was responsible for consolidating British control over the first major Indian province to be conquered.
He has also the power to appoint the higher officers of the State including the Advocate-General and the members of the State Public Service Commission. He has also a share in the appointment of the Judges of High Court. The Governor has the constitutional right to know the decisions of the...
On June 3, 1947, Viscount Louis Mountbatten, the last British Governor-General of India, announced the partitioning of British India into India and Pakistan. With the speedy passage through the British Parliament of the Indian Independence Act 1947, at 11:57 on August 14, 1947 Pakistan was dec...
In the former case the authority of the British was direct and control was exercised through the British Parliament, the Secretary of State for India, the Governor-General in Council, and the Provincial Governors, in that order. Whereas in the latter case the relationship was determined by a ...
Lord Canning, the Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, was made the first Viceroy of India under the Government of India ACT 1958.He was rewarded for suppressing the revolt. The served in India either as Governor General or Viceroy from 1856 to 1862. Show More ...
In the following pages the various sections of the British Empire outside Gt. Britain and Northern Ireland are arranged in alphabetical order under the divisions of the world to which they belong :—1. Europe; 2. Asia; 3. Africa; 4. America; 5. Australas
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A later Governor-General who immersed himself in Evatt’s historical writing was Sir John Kerr, whose career has been criticized strongly by Jenny Hocking inThe Dismissal Dossier(my reviewhere). Hocking has been pursuing the correspondence between Kerr and the Palace for many years – the historia...
Boasberg says he plans to “take a welcome respite from thinking about this” until the first brief is due. He thanks everyone for their “hard work over the last four and a half years” — a stark reminder of how long this case has been in the works — and adds that the “issues ...
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