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Although the Proclamation of 1858 announcing the assumption of the government of India by the Crown referred to Lord Canning as "first Viceroy and Governor-General", none of the Warrants appointing his successors referred to them as 'Viceroys', and the title, which was frequently used in Warrants dealing with precedence and in public ...
Also see Category:Governors-general of India. This category includes Viceroys of India between 1858 and 1947. All Viceroys were also Governors-General of India. After partition of the Indian Empire in 1947 the Muslim areas were taken over by a Governor-General of Pakistan but a Governor-General of India still continued to exist.
Several governors, lieutenant governors and administrators pose with the President of India at the ‘2024 Governors Conference’, at Rashtrapati Bhawan, in New Delhi in August 2024. In the Republic of India, according to the Article 154 of Constitution of India, a governor is the constitutional head of each of the twenty-eight states.
The Governor-General of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy 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 of the monarch of India.
The main imperial or quasi-imperial rulers of North India are fairly clear from this point on, but many local rulers, and the situation in the Deccan and South India has less clear stone inscriptions from early centuries. Main sources of South Indian history is Sangam Literature dated from 300s BCE. Time period of ancient Indian rulers is ...
Viceroys of India (21 P) Viceroys of Portuguese India (25 P) L. Viceroys of the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia (4 P) R. ... This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Viceroy and Captain-General of India: D. Bernardo José Maria da Silveira e Lorena, Count of Sarzedas: 1806: 1816: Viceroy and Captain-General of India: D. Diogo de Sousa, Count of Rio Pardo: 1816: 1821: Provisional Junta of Government of the State of India: Manuel José Gomes Loureiro, Manuel Godinho Mira, Joaquim Manuel Correia da Silva e Gama,
For Lists of rulers of India, see: List of Indian monarchs (c. 3000 BCE – 1956 CE) List of presidents of India (1950–present)