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*[https://archive.org/details/indiaundercurzon00frasuoft ''India under Curzon & after''] by Lovat Fraser 1911 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/indiaundercurzon00frasuoft ''India under Curzon & after''] by Lovat Fraser 1911 Archive.org
*''British Government In India: The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses'' by the Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. , Viceroy and Governor General of India,  Jan.1899-May 1904, and Dec. 1904-Nov.1905. 1925 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/BritishGovernmentInIndiaCurzon1  Volume One], [https://archive.org/details/BritishGovernmentInIndiaCurzon2 Volume Two] Archive.org
*''British Government In India: The Story of the Viceroys and Government Houses'' by the Marquis Curzon of Kedleston, K.G. , Viceroy and Governor General of India,  Jan.1899-May 1904, and Dec. 1904-Nov.1905. 1925 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/BritishGovernmentInIndiaCurzon1  Volume One], [https://archive.org/details/BritishGovernmentInIndiaCurzon2 Volume Two] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/belowpeacockfanf00fowl/page/n359 ''Below the Peacock Fan : First Ladies of the Raj''] by Marian Fowler 1987 Archive.org Lending Library.  Emily Eden, Charlotte Canning, Edith Lytton, Mary Curzon.
*[https://archive.org/details/belowpeacockfanf00fowl ''Below the Peacock Fan : First Ladies of the Raj''] by Marian Fowler 1987 Archive.org Lending Library.  Emily Eden, Charlotte Canning, Edith Lytton, Mary Curzon.
*[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500261.txt ''Lord Minto, A Memoir''] John Buchan 1924.  Gutenberg.net.au.  Also available  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38659 Archive.org mirror version], originally from  Digital Library of India. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound,_4th_Earl_of_Minto Lord Minto] was Viceroy from 1905  
*[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500261.txt ''Lord Minto, A Memoir''] John Buchan 1924.  Gutenberg.net.au.  Also available  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38659 Archive.org mirror version], originally from  Digital Library of India. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound,_4th_Earl_of_Minto Lord Minto] was Viceroy from 1905  
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015019189292?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 ''India, Minto and Morley 1905-1910''] compiled by Mary, Countess of Minto, published 1934. Hathi Trust Digital Library.  It  is also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278887  Archive.org version], originally from Digital Library of India.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015019189292?urlappend=%3Bseq=15 ''India, Minto and Morley 1905-1910''] compiled by Mary, Countess of Minto, published 1934. Hathi Trust Digital Library.  It  is also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278887  Archive.org version], originally from Digital Library of India.

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The Governor-General of India was the head of the administration in British India. Between 1858 and 1947 the position was titled Viceroy and Governor-General of India.

Warren Hastings - First Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785

History of the position

  • 1833 The newly designated Governor-General of India was granted authority over all of British India.
  • 1858 After the Indian Mutiny the Crown took control of India and the Governor-General was the head of the government in India. To reflect his further role as the monarch's representative to the Princely states, the office was retitled Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
  • 1947 The Governor-General was kept after Independence until India and Pakistan became republics in the 1950s, although the term Viceroy was abandoned.

FIBIS Resources

Holders

See Category:Governors-General of India as well as a full list on Wikipedia (link below).

External links

The FIBIS Google Books Library
has books tagged:
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Historical books online

Viceroys House New Delhi
Selections From The State Papers Of The Governors General Of India edited by G W Forrest. Volume I Warren Hastings, Volume II Warren Hastings 1910 Archive.org.
Mountbatten And The Partition Of India by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre 1960 Archive.org version mirror from Digital Library of India. Publication date elsewhere is given as 1982. Also available to read online on Academy of the Punjab in North America.
Mountbatten And Independent India by Larry Collins and Dominique Laouerre 1960 Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. Publication date elsewhere is given as 1982.