INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -He was the first Governor of Bihar and Orissa, first Indian Advocate-General of Bengal, first Indian to become a member of the Viceroy’s Executive Council and the first Indian to become a member of the British ministry. He is sometimes also referred as Satyendra Prasanno Sinha or Satyendra Prasad Sinha.

Detailed explanation-2: -First governor general of British India was Lord William Bentinck. Charter act of 1833 made the Governor General of Bengal as the Governor General of India. Q.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1920 he was appointed governor of the province of Bihar and Orissa, becoming the first Indian to hold such office under the British. Ill health forced his resignation the following year. He was appointed a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1926.

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: -Satyendra Narayan Sinha (12 July 1917 – 4 September 2006) was an Indian politician and statesman, participant in the Indian independence movement, a leading light of Jaya Prakash Narayan’s ‘complete revolution’ movement during the Emergency and a former Chief Minister of Bihar.