Monday, April 11, 2011

Rulers of Bengal

Nawabs of Bengal
Murshid Quli Khan (1717–1727)
Shuja-ud-Din Muhammad Khan (1727–1739)
Sarfaraz Khan (1739–1740)
Alivardi Khan (1740–1756)
Siraj-ud-Daula (1756–1757)
Mir Jafar Ali Khan (1757–1760)
Mir Qasim (1760–1763)
Mir Jafar Ali Khan (1763–1765)
Najimuddin Ali Khan (1765–1766)
Najabut Ali Khan (1766–1770)
Ashraf Ali Khan (1770-1770)
Mubaraq Ali Khan (1770–1793)
Baber Ali Khan (1793–1810)
Zainul Abedin Ali Khan (1810–1821)
Ahmad Ali Khan (1821–1824)
Mubarak Ali Khan II (1824–1838)
Mansur Ali Khan (1838-1880 abdicated)
British Rulers of BengalChief Agents
  (1701-1756)1700–1701: Charles Eyre
1701–1705: John Bead
1705: Edward Littleton
1705–1710: Ruled by a council
1710–1711: Anthony Weltden
1711–1713: John Russell
1713–1718: Robert Hedges
1718–1723: Samuel Flake
1723–1726: John Deane
1726–1728: Henry Frankland
1728: Edward Stephenson
1728–1732: John Deane
1732–1739: John Stackhouse
1739–1746: Thomas Broddyll
1746–1748: John Forster
1748–1749: William Barwell
1749–1752: Adam Dawson
1752: William Fytche
1752–1756: Roger Drake
Governors (1757-1854)
1757–1760: Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
1760–1764: Henry Vansittart
1765–1766: Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive
1767–1769: Harry Verelst
1769–1772: John Cartier
1772–1785: Warren Hastings
1786–1793: Charles Cornwallis, 2nd Earl Cornwallis
1797–1805: Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley
1805: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis
1848–1854: James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie
Lieutenant-Governors
(1854-1912)1854–1859: Frederick Halliday
1859–1862: John Grant
1862–1866: Sir Cecil Beadon
1866–1871: Sir William Grey
1871–1874: George Campbell
1874–1877: Sir Richard Temple
1877–1879: Sir Ashley Eden
1879–1882: Steuart Bayley
1882–1885: Sir Augustus Thompson
1885–1887: Horace Cockerell
1887–1890: Sir Steuart Bayley
1890–1893: Charles Elliot
1893–1895: Anthony MacDonnell
1895–1897: Alexander Mackenzie
1897–1898: Sir Charles Stevens
1898–1902: John Woodburn
1902–1903: James Bourdillon
1903–1906: Sir Andrew Fraser
1906: Lancelot Hare
1906–1908: Francis Slacke
1908–1911: Sir Edward Baker
1911–1912: Sir William Duke
Governors (1912-1947)
1912–1917: Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael
1917–1922: Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland as Earl of Ronaldshay
1922–1927: Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton
1927–1932: Sir Stanley Jackson
1932–1937: Sir John Anderson
1937–1939: Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron Brabourne
1939–1943: John Arthur Herbert
1944–1946: Sir Richard Casey
1946–1947: Sir Frederick Burrows