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 job of ruling in India seven times as many subjects of the King-Emperor as live in the British Isles is likely to be tough during the weeks to come for that tall, scholarly Scottish banker, ...

Governor-General of India. Viceroy of India. Time Period. 1773–1858. 1858–1947. First Office Holder. Warren Hastings. Lord Canning. Established By. Regulating Act of 1773. Government of India ...

Directed and co-written by Gurinder Chadha (who also directed and co-wrote Bend it Like Beckham) this crowd-pleasing, gently revisionist period drama examines the last days of British colonial rule.

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 ...

Set during the 1947 Partition of India, in which the reluctantly departing British colonial rulers cleaved the subcontinent into India and Pakistan, the period drama ... “Viceroy’s House ...

Gurinder Chadha's stilted historical epic about the 1947 Partition of India builds too little on her personal investment in the subject. To begin at the very end, the closing credits of “Viceroy ...

Sir Herbert Samuel, former High Commissioner of Palestine and secretary of state for home affairs in the Lloyd George cabinet of 1916, will be the next Viceroy of India after the retirement of ...