INDIAN HISTORY

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: -The first Governor-General of Bengal was Warren Hastings with tenure of office from 1772-1785. Warren Hastings was an English statesman, the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -William Bentinck became the first governor general of India in 1833. Warren Hastings was the first governor general of Bengal..

Detailed explanation-5: -The first person to be sworn as the Governor of Bengal was Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari on August 15 1947. The state has largely been ruled by the Communist Party of India until the TMC turned the tables in the year 2012. On July 30 2019, Jagdeep Dhankar was appointed by the NDA at the Centre as the Governor of Bengal.