write about governor general of India during British period and about their policies
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1- Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785. In 1787, he was accused of corruption and impeached, but after a long trial, he was acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Counsellor in 1814.
2- John Macpherson (minister) (1710–1765), Scottish minister and antiquarian
Sir John Macpherson, 1st Baronet (1745–1821), Scottish administrator in India
John Alexander MacPherson (1833–1894), Australian politician
John Andrew MacPherson (1856–1944), New Zealand politician, Liberal Party MP
John Thomas Macpherson (1872–1921), British Member of Parliament for Preston, 1906–1910
Sir John Stuart Macpherson (1898–1971), Governor of Nigeria, 1958–1955
3- British General Charles Cornwallis, the Earl Cornwallis, was appointed in February 1786 to serve as both Commander-in-Chief of British India and Governor of the Presidency of Fort William, also known as the Bengal Presidency. He oversaw the consolidation of British control over much of peninsular India, setting the stage for the British Raj. He was also instrumental in enacting administrative and legal reforms that fundamentally altered civil administration and land management practices there. According to historian Jerry Dupont, Cornwallis was responsible for "laying the foundation for British rule throughout India and setting standards for the services, courts, and revenue collection that remained remarkably unaltered almost to the end of the British era."[1]
4- Sir John Shore succeeded Cornwallis. He looked after the affairs of the company till 1798 when he was recalled due to failure in tackling with the mutiny of army officials of Bengal in 1785. Sir John Shore followed a policy of non-intervention in the affairs of the native states.
5- The Subsidiary Alliance System was “Non-Intervention Policy” used by Lord Wellesley who was the Governor-General (1798-1805) to establish British Empire in India. According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of British army
6- Sir George Hilaro Barlow, 1st Baronet, GCB (20 January 1763 – 18 December 1846)[1] served as Acting Governor-General of India from the death of Lord Cornwallis in 1805 until the arrival of Lord Minto in 1807.
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Lord Minto's vigorous policy, 1807. that “it was essential, not only to the preservation of political influence over the chiefs of Bundelkund, but to the dignity and reputation of the British Government to interfere for the suppression of intestine disorder.”
8- Lord Hastings served as the Governor General of India from 1813 to 1823, a long ten years term. His tenure is known for the policy of intervention and war. Lord Hastings put an end to the policy of non-intervention which was adopted by John Shore
9- Lord Amherst
10- Lord William Bentinck is known as the liberal Governor General of India.
11- Sir Charles Metcalfe
12- Lord Auckland served as the Governor General of India .
13- James Andrew Ramsay, also known as Lord Dalhousie
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