28-12-2017, 04:28 PM
Sir John Lawrence (1864-69)
*He is rightly called “the saviour of India and organiser of victory”.
*Scholarship scheme was introduced by him.
*A large number of canals, railways and public works were established.
*Famine Commission was constituted.
*He aimed to uplift peasantry.
*Telegraph communication was opened with Europe.
Lord Mayo (1869-72)
*The viceroy who started Statistical Survey of India
Ans : Lord Mayo
*The viceroy who introduced sales department in India
Ans : Lord Mayo
*The viceroy who passed Indian Evidence Act
Ans : Lord Mayo
*The Indian Evidence Act was passed in the year
Ans : 1872
*Kuka movement was active during his rule.
*The viceroy murdered in India
Ans : Lord Mayo (at Andaman)
*The prisoner who murdered Lord Mayo
Ans : Sher Ali
*The viceroy who started the process of decentralisation of finance in India
Ans : Lord Mayo
*Mayo college is situated at
Ans : Ajmer (Rajastan)
Lord North Brook (1872-1876)
*The viceroy when the Prince of Wales visited India in 1875
Ans : Lord North Brook
*Kuka revolt broke out at the period of Lord North Brook (1872)
*Trial of Gaekwad of Baroda held during the period of Lord North Brook
no doubt
*The first census in India conducted by the viceroy
Ans : Lord Mayo (1872)
*The first regular census in India conducted by the viceroy
Ans : Lord Ripon (1881)