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From this time the Governors General of India held also the separate office of Governor of Bengal, until the year 1854. [2] Under the Charter Act 1853 the Governor General of India was relieved of his concurrent duties as Governor of Bengal and empowered to appoint a lieutenant-governor from 1854.
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 of West Bengal is the nominal head of the Indian state of West Bengal. The governor is appointed by the president of India. C. V. Ananda Bose is the incumbent governor, having taken office on 18 November 2022. [1]
Governors-General of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), 1773–1833; Warren Hastings (1732–1818) 20 October 1773 [nb 1] 8 February 1785 Regulating Act 1773; First Rohilla War (1773–1774) Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William (1774) was established; Formation of Supreme Council of Bengal (1774) First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–1782)
Pages in category "Governors of Bengal" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Saifuddin Aibak;
List of Governors of East Bengal # Portrait Governor Term of office Political Party Governor General/ President Term Start Term End Time in Office 1 Sir Frederick Chalmers Bourne (1891-1977) 15 August 1947 [50] 5 April 1950 [50] [51] 2 years, 233 days Independent (British Administrator)
List of governors of Bengal Presidency (1758–1947); List of governors of Bombay Presidency (1662–1948), also post-independence; List of governors of Punjab (British India) (1921–1947)
The lieutenant governorship was finally separated from the Bengal Presidency in 1878 and merged with the Oudh Province which had been a Chief Commissioner's Province under the direct supervision of the Indian Government till then and the office of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal ...