Category:Governors-General of India

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(Also see Category:Viceroys of India)

This category includes both British Governors-General of India before 1858 and the Governors-General of India between 1947 and 1950. All Viceroys were also Governors-General. In 1950 the duties and functions of the King of India and Governor-General of India were merged in to a President of India.

After partition of the Indian Empire in 1947 the Muslim areas were taken over by a Governor-General of Pakistan.

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