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Viceroys and GG's of India

Lord William Bentick(1828-35)

• First Governor General of India as designated by Government of India Act 1833.
• Known as the benevolent Governor General.
• Banned practice of sati in 1829, suppressed Thugi in 1830(military operation led by William Sleeman) 
• Banned female infanticide
• Created the province of Agra in 1834.
• English was to be court language in higher court but persian continued in lower courts. English was made the official language of india in 1835.
• The regulation of 1833 on land revenue settlement by Mertins Bird(called as the father of land revenue settlement in North). Use of filed maps and filed registers  were prescribed for the first time.
• Inquiry into titles of Inam lands.
• 1830, annexation of chachar took place.
• 1831, annexation of Titu Mir and Kols.
• 1831, annexation of Mysore.
• Treaty of perpetual friendship with Ranjit Singh.
• Abolished provincial circuits courts; a separate Sadr Diwani Adalat was set up in Allahabad and Sadr Nizamat Adalat at Delhi.
• Education Reforms. Appointed Macaulay as president of committee of public instruction.