Difference Between Governor General and Viceroy: India got independence from British rule on August 15, 1947. Have you ever wondered how the British governed India? The positions of the Governor ...

The Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly known as the Viceroy of India, came into effect after the revolt of 1857 by the Government of India Act 1858.

1. It provided that India henceforth was to be governed by, and in the name of, Her Majesty. It changed the designation of the Governor-General of India to that of Viceroy of India.

Far more ceremonious than the inauguration of a President of the U. S. was the arrival in Bombay last week of the new Viceroy of India, the tall (6 ft. 3 in.), young (49), scholarly Scottish lord, ...

The new Viceroy is, however, by no means a mere political heir who ascended his appointed throne last week. Since 1910, when he was 29, he has been consistently returned to the House of Commons as ...

The first Governor General of India, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, found his palatial quarters too big to live in, opting for a smaller suite of rooms than Viceroys had been used to. From 1950 ...

Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah declined to have Lord Mountbatten as the joint Governor-General of Pakistan and India largely because during the marathon meetings he had with the last Viceroy ...