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Governors-General and Viceroys - Short Trick

Every Governor-General and Viceroy in order, with the events of their time — one sentence each

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  • Guru Ram Each coloured word = one name in the list, shown below in the same colour
  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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The Posts and the Governors before 1772

The chain of five posts — each last holder is the next post’s first — and the early governors of Bengal.

Trick 1

The chain of five posts

➜ 1773 → 1950

On the watchman’s bench Captain’s mother eats rajma.

  1. 1Warren Hastingsfirst Governor-General of Bengal (Regulating Act 1773)
  2. 2William Bentincklast Governor-General of Bengal and first of India (Charter Act 1833)
  3. 3Lord Canninglast Governor-General of India and first Viceroy (Government of India Act 1858)
  4. 4Lord Mountbattenlast Viceroy and first Governor-General of the Dominion (1947)
  5. 5C. Rajagopalacharilast and only Indian Governor-General (1948–50)

Each name is the last holder of one post and the first of the next. First Governor of Bengal: Robert Clive (1757); last: Warren Hastings (1772–74).

Pairs

Bengal governors before 1772 — what happened in whose time

4 sentences

Class runs in two shifts.

Robert Clive=Dual government of Bengal set up (1765–72) · governor 1757–60, 1765–67

A van full of boxes

Vansittart=Battle of Buxar (1764) · governor 1760–64

The carton has no food left.

Cartier=Bengal famine (1770) · governor 1769–72

The watchman ended his double duty.

Warren Hastings=Ended the dual government (1772)

Under Verelst (1767–69) the dual government continued.

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Governors-General of Bengal (1774–1833)

Warren Hastings to Bentinck in order, the big event of each term, and the states that accepted the subsidiary alliance.

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3

Governors-General of India (1833–1856)

The order after Bentinck, the big event of each term, and the states taken under Dalhousie’s Doctrine of Lapse.

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4

Canning to Curzon (1856–1905)

The early Viceroys of the Crown in order, and the big event of each term.

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5

Minto II to Mountbatten (1905–1948)

The Viceroys of the national movement in order, and the big event of each term.

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