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, ...

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 ...

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, ...

“Viceroy’s House,” which largely succeeds in its attempt to present a comprehensive, yet efficient look at the 1947 partitioning of the British Indian Empire, proves a far more absorbing and ...

"Viceroy's House" works mainly as a historical refresher on the 70th anniversary of Indian independence; as drama it's a reminder that truth is sometimes more affecting than fiction.

“Viceroy’s House” is a bit like “Downton Abbey,” only set in Delhi, against the backdrop of India’s independence from English colonial rule. The most obvious similarity is that Hugh ...

The haunting effect of partition is illuminated on the big screen in director Gurinder Chadha's Viceroy's House.. Set in 1947 as Britain ended its colonial rule of India and separated the country ...

The Marquess of Reading, former Viceroy of India, died today of heart disease aggravated by a recent chill. He was seventy-five years old on Oct. 10. At his bedside when he died were his wife and ...