QD MAY 2023 ODS - RAMESH

It is not clear whether it was a Dark and stormy night when he was born - Queen Victoria became the Queen Empress of India - the Great Famine of 1876–1878 happened during his tenure as Viceroy and resulted in the death of 6-10 million people

The first Viceroy of India - after Government of India Act 1858 was passed post of Governor General of India was changed to Viceroy of India - appointed directly by the British government.

The First Anglo Afghan War - A major city in the anitpodes named after him - Shikar Dhawan 115 in 2014

Cripps Mission and the Quit India Movement happened during his tenure

on February 23, 1931 Churchill said "It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, an Inner Temple lawyer, now become a seditious fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor." With which Viceroy was the Mahatma parleying?

From Tintin in Tibet - the blank is the former name of Safdarjung airport, that was named after this Viceroy - Poona Pact signed during his tenure

The first Governor-general of India - impeached later acquitted) on his return to England -

Led British and Company forces in the Third Anglo-Mysore War - one of the leading British generals in the American War of Independence - this painting by Robert Home shows him receiving Tipoo Sultan's sons as hostages

His brother was a Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War at the Battle of Seringapatam took place during his tenure - succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Mornington

Introduced the Doctrine of Lapse - the first passenger train between Bombay and Thane happened in 1853 during his tenure