Title: Governor-General of India
Content:  UK Cabinet, was responsible for instructing him or her on the exercise of their powers. After 1947, the sovereign continued to appoint the Governor-General but thereafter did so on the advice of the government of the newly independent Dominion of India. Governor-General served at the pleasure of the sovereign, though the practice was to have them serve five-year terms. Governor-General could have their commission rescinded; and if one was removed, or left, a provisional Governor-General was sometimes appointed until a new holder of the office could be chosen. The first Governor-General in India (of Bengal) was Warren Hastings, the first official Governor-General of British India was Lord William Bentinck, and the first Governor-General of the Dominion of India was Lord Mountbatten.
Title: Governor-General of India
Content:  The Governor-General of India (1773–1950, from 1858 to 1947 the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was the representative of the Monarch of the United Kingdom and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state. The office was created in 1773, with the title of Governor-General of the Presidency of Fort William. The officer had direct control only over Fort William but supervised other East India Company officials in India. Complete authority over all of India was granted in 1833, and the official came to be known as the "Governor-General of India". In 1858, as a consequence of the Indian Rebellion the previous year, the territories and assets of the East India 
Title: List of governors-general of India
Content:  The Regulating Act of 1773 created the office with the title of Governor-General of Presidency of Fort William, or Governor-General of Bengal to be appointed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company (EIC). The Court of Directors assigned a Council of Four (based in India) to assist the Governor-General, and the decision of the council was binding on the Governor-General during 1773–1784. The Saint Helena Act 1833 (or Government of India Act 1833) re-designated the office with the title of Governor-General of India. Lord William Bentinck was first to be designated as the Governor-general of India in 1833. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the company rule was brought to an end, but the British India along with princely states came under the direct rule of the 
Title: Governor-General of India
Content:  subject to the sovereign's approval via the India Board. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British East India Company's territories in India were put under the direct control of the sovereign. The Government of India Act 1858 vested the power to appoint the governor-general in the sovereign. The governor-general, in turn, had the power to appoint all lieutenant governors in India, subject to the sovereign's approval. India and Pakistan acquired independence in 1947, but governors-general continued to be appointed over each nation until republican constitutions were written. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, remained governor-general of India for some time after independence, but the two nations were otherwise headed by native governors-general. India became a secular republic in 1950; Pakistan became an Islamic one in 1956.
Title: Governor-General of India
Content:   Many parts of the Indian subcontinent were governed by the British East India Company (founded in 1600), which nominally acted as the agent of the Mughal emperor. Early British administrators were presidents or governors of Bengal Presidency. In 1773, motivated by corruption in the company, the British government assumed partial control over the governance of India with the passage of the Regulating Act of 1773. A governor-general and Supreme Council of Bengal were appointed to rule over the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal. The first governor-general and Council were named in the Act. The Charter Act 1833 replaced the governor-general and Council of Fort William with the governor-general and Council of India. The power to elect the governor-general was retained by the Court of Directors, but the choice 
Title: List of University of Cambridge people
Content: Clement Francis Cornwall (Trinity/Magdalene), Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1881–1887) ; Charles Cornwallis (Clare), Governor-General of India (1786–1793) ; Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Marquess of Willingdon (Trinity), 13th Governor General of Canada (1926–1931) ; Sir Robert George Howe (St Catharine's), Governor General of the Sudan (1947–1955) ; David Lloyd Johnston (Trinity Hall), 28th Governor General of Canada (2010&ndash;) ; Sir William Manning (Fitzwilliam), Governor of Jamaica (1913–1918) and Governor of Ceylon (1918–1925) ; Louis Mountbatten (Christ's), last Viceroy of India (1947); first Governor General of India (1947–1948) ; Sarojini Naidu (Girton), first woman to become the President of the Indian National Congress (1925) and Governor of Uttar Pradesh (1947–1949) ; Shenton Thomas (Queens'), last Governor of the Straits Settlements (1934-1942, 1945-1946) and Governor of the Gold Coast (1932-1934) ; Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough (Trinity), 14th Governor-General of Canada (1931–1935) ; John Winthrop (Trinity), founder and first Governor of Massachusetts (1630–1648) 
Title: Governor-General of India
Content:  came under the direct control of the British Crown; as a consequence, the Company rule in India was succeeded by the British Raj. The Governor-General (now also the Viceroy) headed the central government of India, which administered the provinces of British India, including the Punjab, Bengal, Bombay, Madras, the United Provinces, and others. However, much of India was not ruled directly by the British Government; outside the provinces of British India, there were hundreds of nominally independent princely states or "native states", whose relationship was not with the British Government or the United Kingdom, but rather one of homage directly with the British monarch as sovereign successor to the Mughal emperors. From 1858, to reflect the Governor-General's new additional role as the 
Title: Governor-General of India
Content:  to do so by the governor-general or by the company's Court of Directors. While the governor-general thus became the controller of foreign policy in India, he was not the explicit head of British India. That status came only with the Charter Act 1833, which granted him "superintendence, direction and control of the whole civil and military Government" of all of British India. The Act also granted legislative powers to the governor-general and Council. After 1858, the governor-general (now usually known as the viceroy) functioned as the chief administrator of India and as the Sovereign's representative. India was divided into numerous provinces, each under the head of a governor, lieutenant governor or chief 
Title: Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning
Content:  Charles Canning, 1st Earl Canning,  (14 December 1812 – 17 June 1862), also known as The Viscount Canning and  Clemency Canning, was a British statesman and Governor-General of India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the first Viceroy of India after the transfer of power from the East India Company to the Crown of Queen Victoria in 1858 after the rebellion was crushed. Canning is credited for ensuring that the administration and most departments of the government functioned normally during the rebellion and took major administrative decisions even during the peak of the Rebellion in 1857, including establishing the first three modern Universities in India, the University of Calcutta, University of Madras and University 
Title: Lord William Bentinck
Content:  Lord William Bentinck was the first governor general of British-occupied India. Everyone else before him was the governor of Bengal (Fort William) On his return to England, Bentinck served in the House of Commons for some years before being appointed Governor-General of Bengal in 1828. His principal concern was to turn around the loss-making East India Company, to ensure that its charter would be renewed by the British government. Bentinck engaged in an extensive range of cost-cutting measures, earning the lasting enmity of many military men whose wages were cut. Although historians emphasise his more efficient financial management, his modernising projects also included a policy of westernisation, influenced by the Utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham and James Mill, which was more controversial. He reformed the court system

Question: who was first governor general of british india?
Answer: Louis Mountbatten.
Warren Hastings.