Eight Lectures on India

Part 12

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LIST OF VICEROYS OF INDIA SINCE THE TRANSFER OF THE ADMINISTRATION FROM THE EAST INDIA COMPANY TO THE CROWN IN 1858.

VISCOUNT CANNING, to 1862 March,

EARL OF ELGIN, 1862-3

SIR JOHN LAWRENCE, 1864-9

EARL OF MAYO, 1869-72

LORD NORTHBROOK, 1872-6

LORD LYTTON, 1876-80

MARQUESS OF RIPON, 1880-84

EARL OF DUFFERIN, 1884-88

MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE, 1888-94

EARL OF ELGIN, 1894-99

LORD CURZON OF KEDLESTON, 1899-1905

EARL OF MINTO, 1905-1910

LORD HARDINGE, 1910

NOTE (I).—Many of the artistic and other objects mentioned in the preceding pages can be better appreciated after a visit to the Indian Museum at South Kensington.

NOTE (II).—The thanks of the Committee are due for a few of the slides to Colonel Frederick Firebrace, R.E., Managing Director of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company, and to Mr. A. L. Hetherington, of the Board of Education.

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