| Warren Hastings (1773–1785) | Regulating Act (1773); Rohilla War (1774); First Anglo-Maratha War (1775–82); Treaty of Salbai (1782); Second Anglo-Mysore War (1780–84) | Act of 1781; Pitt's India Act (1784); Asiatic Society of Bengal (1784); Chait Singh controversy & impeachment |
| Lord Cornwallis (1786–1793) | Third Anglo-Mysore War (1790–92); Treaty of Seringapatam (1792) | Cornwallis Code (1793); Permanent Settlement (1793); Europeanisation of Civil Services |
| Sir John Shore (1793–1798) | Battle of Kharda (1795) | Charter Act (1793) |
| Lord Wellesley (1798–1805) | Subsidiary Alliance (1798); Fourth Anglo-Mysore War (1799); Second Anglo-Maratha War (1803–05); Treaty of Bassein (1802) | Annexation of Tanjore (1799), Surat (1800), Carnatic (1801) |
| Sir George Barlow (1805–1807) | Vellore Mutiny (1806) | — |
| Lord Minto I (1807–1813) | Treaty of Amritsar (1809) | — |
| Lord Hastings (1813–1823) | Anglo-Nepal War (1814–16); Treaty of Sagauli (1816); Third Anglo-Maratha War (1817–19); Pindari War (1817–18) | Treaty with Sindhia (1817); Bombay Presidency (1818); Ryotwari System by Thomas Munro (1820) |
| Lord Amherst (1823–1828) | First Burmese War (1824–26); Capture of Bharatpur (1826) | — |
| Lord William Bentinck (1828–1835) | Abolition of Sati (1829); Suppression of Thuggee (1830) | Charter Act (1833); English Education Resolution (1835); Annexation of Mysore (1831), Coorg (1834), Central Cachar (1834); Treaty with Ranjit Singh; Judicial reforms |
| Lord Metcalfe (1835–1836) | — | Press Act removing restrictions (1835) |
| Lord Auckland (1836–1842) | First Anglo-Afghan War (1838–42) | Death of Ranjit Singh (1839) |
| Lord Ellenborough (1842–1844) | Annexation of Sindh (1843); Gwalior War (1843) | — |
| Lord Hardinge I (1844–1848) | First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–46); Treaty of Lahore (1846) | Abolition of Female Infanticide & Human Sacrifice |
| Lord Dalhousie (1848–1856) | Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–49); Annexation of Punjab (1849); Annexation of Pegu (1852); Doctrine of Lapse | Satara (1848), Jaitpur & Sambalpur (1849), Udaipur (1852), Jhansi (1853), Nagpur (1854), Awadh (1856); Wood's Despatch (1854); Railway Minute (1853); First Railway (1853); Telegraph & Post Office Act (1854); Ganges Canal (1854); PWD; Widow Remarriage Act (1856) |
| Lord Canning (1856–1857) | Revolt of 1857 | Universities of Calcutta, Bombay & Madras (1857) |
| Lord Canning (1858–1862) | Government of India Act (1858); White Mutiny (1859) | Transfer of power to Crown (1858); Indian Councils Act (1861) |
| Lord Elgin I (1862–1863) | Wahabi Movement | — |
| Lord John Lawrence (1864–1869) | Bhutan War (1865) | High Courts at Calcutta, Bombay & Madras (1865) |
| Lord Mayo (1869–1872) | — | Mayo College; Rajkot College; Statistical Survey of India; Agriculture & Commerce Department; State Railways |
| Lord Northbrook (1872–1876) | Prince of Wales Visit (1875); Kuka Movement | Trial of Gaekwar of Baroda |
| Lord Lytton (1876–1880) | Great Famine (1876–78); Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878–80) | Royal Titles Act (1876); Famine Commission (1878); Vernacular Press Act (1878); Arms Act (1878) |
| Lord Ripon (1880–1884) | Factory Act (1881); Ilbert Bill (1883–84) | Repeal of Vernacular Press Act (1882); Local Self-Government (1882); Hunter Commission (1882); Rendition of Mysore |
| Lord Dufferin (1884–1888) | Third Burmese War (1885–86) | Indian National Congress founded (1885) |
| Lord Lansdowne (1888–1894) | — | Factory Act (1891); Indian Councils Act (1892); Durand Commission (1893) |
| Lord Elgin II (1894–1899) | Chapekar Brothers assassination case (1897) | — |
| Lord Curzon (1899–1905) | Partition of Bengal (1905); Younghusband Mission (1904) | Calcutta Corporation Act (1899); Police Commission (1902); Universities Commission (1902); Indian Universities Act (1904); Ancient Monuments Preservation Act (1904); Commerce & Industry Department; Curzon-Kitchener Controversy |
| Lord Minto II (1905–1910) | Swadeshi Movement; Muslim League (1906); Surat Split (1907) | — |
| Lord Hardinge II (1910–1916) | Capital shifted to Delhi (1911) | Bengal Presidency (1911); Delhi Durbar (1911); Hindu Mahasabha (1915) |
| Lord Chelmsford (1916–1921) | Home Rule League (1916); Lucknow Pact (1916); Champaran (1917); Kheda (1918); Ahmedabad Strike (1918); Montagu Declaration (1917); Government of India Act (1919); Rowlatt Act (1919); Jallianwala Bagh (1919); Non-Cooperation & Khilafat (1920) | Sabarmati Ashram (1916); Women's University Pune (1916); Saddler Commission (1917); Death of Tilak (1920); S.P. Sinha became Bihar Governor |
| Lord Reading (1921–1926) | Moplah Rebellion (1921); Chauri Chaura (1922); Kakori Case (1925) | Swaraj Party (1922); Repeal of Press Act & Rowlatt Act; ICS exam in India (1923); Murder of Swami Shraddhanand (1926) |
| Lord Irwin (1926–1931) | Simon Commission (1928); Nehru Report (1928); Lahore Session & Purna Swaraj (1929); Dandi March (1930); Civil Disobedience Movement (1930); Gandhi-Irwin Pact (1931) | Butler Committee (1927); Deepavali Declaration (1929); First Round Table Conference (1930) |
| Lord Willingdon (1931–1936) | Second RTC (1931); Communal Award (1932); Poona Pact (1932); Third RTC (1932); Individual Satyagraha (1933) | Government of India Act (1935); Congress Socialist Party (1934); All India Kisan Sabha (1936); Burma separated (1935) |
| Lord Linlithgow (1936–1944) | Provincial Elections (1937); Bose Congress President (1938); Forward Bloc (1939); Lahore Resolution (1940); August Offer (1940); INA (1941); Cripps Mission (1942); Quit India Movement (1942) | Congress Ministries resigned (1939); Churchill PM (1940); Divide & Quit (1944) |
| Lord Wavell (1944–1947) | CR Formula (1944); Gandhi-Jinnah Talks (1944); Shimla Conference (1945); Cabinet Mission (1946); Direct Action Day (1946); Interim Government (1946) | End of WWII (1945); Constituent Assembly Elections (1946); Attlee Declaration (20 Feb 1947) |
| Lord Mountbatten (1947–1948) | Mountbatten Plan (3 June 1947); Indian Independence Act (1947); Partition of India (1947) | Radcliffe Boundary Commission (1947) |