page_title: Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: An assassination attempt on Lord Charles Hardinge (1858-1944) Viceroy of India, illustration from 'Le Petit Journal', 12th January 1913 (colour litho) Image ID: CHT 176677 An assassination attempt on Lord Charles Hardinge (1858-1944) Viceroy of India, illustration from 'Le Petit Journal', 12th January 1913 (colour litho) Credit: An assassination attempt on Lord Charles Hardinge (1858-1944) Viceroy of India, illustration from 'Le Petit Journal', 12th January 1913 (colour litho), French School, (20th century) / Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France / Archives Charmet / The Bridgeman Art Library CHT 176677 Image number: An assassination attempt on Lord Charles Hardinge (1858-1944) Viceroy of India, illustration from 'Le Petit Journal', 12th January 1913 (colour litho) Title: French School, (20th century) Primary creator: French Nationality: Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France Location: Archives Charmet Credit: colour lithograph Medium: attentat a l'explosif contre le Vice-Roi des Indes; a bomb was thrown from a window in Delhi during a state entry on the first anniversary of the imperial durbar; Description: 1913 (C20th) Date: Royalty and Statesmen of Britain Categories: Vertical
context_page_description: Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, KG, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, ISO, PC, DL was a British diplomat and statesman who served as Viceroy and Governor-General of India from 1910 to 1916.
context_section_description: Hardinge entered the diplomatic services in 1880. He was appointed the first secretary at Tehran in 1896, and the first secretary at Saint Petersburg in 1898, when he was promoted over the heads of seventeen of his seniors. After a brief tenure as Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, he became Ambassador to Russia, in 1904. In 1906, he was promoted to the position of Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, where, despite his own conservatism, worked closely with Liberal Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey. In 1907, he declined the post of Ambassador to the United States. In 1910, Hardinge was raised to the peerage as Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, in the County of Kent, and appointed by the Asquith government as Viceroy of India.
  His tenure was a memorable one, and included the visit of King George V, and the Delhi Durbar of 1911, as well as the move of the capital from Calcutta to New Delhi, in 1911. Although Hardinge was the target of assassination attempts by Indian nationalists, his tenure included an improvement of relations between the British administration and the nationalists, as a consequence of the implementation of the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909; and of Hardinge's own admiration for Mohandas Gandhi and criticism of the South African government's anti-Indian immigration policies.
  Hardinge's efforts paid off in 1914 during the First World War. Due to improved colonial relationships, Britain was able to deploy nearly all of the British troops in India as well as many native Indian troops to areas outside of India. In particular the British Indian Army was able to play a significant role in the Mesopotamian campaign.
  In 1916, Hardinge returned to his former post in England as Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office, serving with Arthur Balfour. In 1920 he became ambassador to France before his retirement in 1922.
caption: 1912 assassination attempt on Lord Hardinge.
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