GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first Governor-General of Bengal in 1772–1785.

Detailed explanation-2: -Warren Hastings, (born December 6, 1732, Churchill, near Daylesford, Oxfordshire, England-died August 22, 1818, Daylesford), the first and most famous of the British governors-general of India, who dominated Indian affairs from 1772 to 1785 and was impeached (though acquitted) on his return to England.

Detailed explanation-3: -William Bentinck became the first governor general of India in 1833. Warren Hastings was the first governor general of Bengal.. This system of overlordship ended with the last Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten.