Multiple choice

Who was the ' First British Governor General' of India ?

  1. General K.M. Cariappa

  2. Warren Hastings

  3. Lord Mountbatten

  4. None of these
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Explanation

Warren Hastings served as the first Governor-General of Fort William in Bengal from 1773 to 1785, making him the first British Governor-General of India under the Regulating Act of 1773. Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy and first Governor-General of independent India. General K.M. Cariappa was the first Indian Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army.

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