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Governors Of Assam
This is a list of governors of Assam, and other offices of similar scope, from the start of British occupation of the area in 1824 during the First Anglo-Burmese War. The governor of Assam is the nominal head of the Indian state of Assam. The governor is appointed by the president of India. The current governor is Lakshman Acharya. Powers and functions The governor has: * Executive powers related to administration, appointments and removals * Legislative powers related to lawmaking and the state legislature, that is Vidhan Sabha or Vidhan Parishad * Discretionary powers to be carried out according to the discretion of the governor British military commanders in occupied Assam (1824–26) Commissioners of Assam (1826–1905) On 24 February 1826, the Treaty of Yandaboo ceded portions of Assam from Burma to Britain.In 1826, Western Assam was incorporated into the province of Bengal, followed by the rest of Assam in 1833. A commissioner of Assam was appointed, subordi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emblem Of Assam
At present the States and union territories of India, state of Assam in India has not adopted a distinctive emblem for government use and instead uses the national emblem of India with the words "Oxom Sorkar" above and "Government of Assam" below. In February 2022, the Government of Assam decided to form a committee to consider the design for a distinctive emblem for the state. Historical emblems Assam Province of British Raj, British India used an emblem that depicted a black rhinoceros on a gold background. File:Ahom insignia plain.svg, Emblem of Ahom kingdom (1228–1826). File:India House, London 20130414 118 - Copy.jpg, Emblem of Assam Province of British Raj, British India. Emblems of autonomous district councils in Assam Some of the autonomous district councils within Assam have adopted distinctive emblems to represent themselves. File:Emblem of Bodoland.png, Bodoland Territorial Region, Bodoland File:Deori Autonomous Council emblem.png, Deori Autonomous Council, Deor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Campbell Robertson
Thomas Campbell Robertson (9 November 1789 – 6 July 1863) was a British civil servant in the Bengal Civil Service in India. Personal life Thomas Campbell Robertson was born in Kenilworth on 9 November 1789, the youngest son of Captain George Robertson and Anne ( Lewis). His father was offered a knighthood for his service in the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1781, and his mother was the daughter of Francis Lewis (1713–1802), one of the signers of the United States Declaration of Independence. When Thomas's father died in 1791 the family moved to Edinburgh where he attended Edinburgh High School. Robertson died at his home at 68 Eaton Square, London, on 6 July 1863. Career Robertson was appointed Judge of the courts of the Ṣadr Dīwānī ʿAdālat and Ṣadr Nizāmat ʿAdālat at the Bengal Presidency in 1804. In 1822, he became District Magistrate in Chittagong; and from March 1825 to August 1825 he served as Agent to the Governor General in Arakan. From 1825 to 1826 Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bampfylde Fuller
Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller (20 March 1854 – 29 November 1935) was a British inventor, writer and first Lieutenant Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, knighted for his service in India. Early life and career Fuller studied at Marlborough College. In 1885, he began his Indian Civil Service career as the Commissioner of Settlements and Agriculture of Central Provinces. He became an Additional member of the Viceroy's Council in 1899. He served as Secretary to Government of India during the period 1901–02. He then served as Chief Commissioner of Assam during 1902–05. Fuller held office as Lieutenant Governor of Eastern Bengal and Assam from 16 October 1905 until he resigned on 20 August 1906 to Lord Minto over the (British) Government of India's refusal to support reprisals against school agitators in Sirajganj. In 1907, an abortive attempt was made by Yugantar Group on his life which he escaped unharmed. Fuller initiated the building of the Governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Bengal And Assam
Eastern Bengal and Assam was a province of British India between 1905 and 1912. Headquartered in the city of Dacca, it covered territories in what are now Bangladesh, Northeast India and Northern West Bengal. History As early as 1868, the government saw the need for an independent administration in the eastern portion of the Bengal Presidency. They felt that Fort William in Calcutta, the capital of British India, was already overburdened. By 1903, it dawned on the government on the necessity of partitioning Bengal and creating prospects for Assam's commercial expansion. It was promised to increase investment in education and jobs in the new province called Eastern Bengal and Assam. Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, proposed the Partition of Bengal and put it into effect on 16 October 1905. Dacca, the former Mughal capital of Bengal, regained its status as a seat of government. Sir Bampfylde Fuller was the province's first Lieutenant Governor. He served for a year in offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Bampfylde Fuller
Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller (20 March 1854 – 29 November 1935) was a British inventor, writer and first Lieutenant Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, knighted for his service in India. Early life and career Fuller studied at Marlborough College. In 1885, he began his Indian Civil Service career as the Commissioner of Settlements and Agriculture of Central Provinces. He became an Additional member of the Viceroy's Council in 1899. He served as Secretary to Government of India during the period 1901–02. He then served as Chief Commissioner of Assam during 1902–05. Fuller held office as Lieutenant Governor of Eastern Bengal and Assam from 16 October 1905 until he resigned on 20 August 1906 to Lord Minto over the (British) Government of India's refusal to support reprisals against school agitators in Sirajganj. In 1907, an abortive attempt was made by Yugantar Group on his life which he escaped unharmed. Fuller initiated the building of the Governor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry John Stedman Cotton
Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton, (13 September 1845 – 22 October 1915) had a long career in the Indian Civil Service, during which he was sympathetic to Indian nationalism and labourers in Assam's tea plantations. He was elected the president of the Indian National Congress in 1904 at the height of the Bengal partition. After returning to England, he served as a Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Nottingham East from 1906 to January 1910. Early life Henry was born in 1845 in the city of Kumbakonam in the Madras region of India, to Indian-born parents of English descent, Joseph John Cotton (1813-1867) and Susan Jessie Minchin (1823-1888). He became the Chief Commissioner of Assam in 1897, from which post he retired in 1902. Through his paternal great-grandfather Joseph Cotton (1745–1825), Henry John Stedman Cotton was a first cousin once removed of both the judge Henry Cotton (his godfather, who he was named after) and of the African explorer William Cotto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wallace Quinton
James Wallace Quinton (1834–1891) was a British colonial administrator who served as Chief Commissioner of Assam from 1889 until his death. He was murdered by a hostile crowd whilst trying to impose British rule in the sovereign state on Manipur. Life Quinton was born the son of a wine merchant in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and graduated BA in 1853. He subsequently served as secretary and president of the University Philosophical Society. Having been appointed to the Bengal civil service in 1856, he served in the North-West Provinces and Oudh until 1875, when he officiated for two years as judicial commissioner in Burma. Returning to the North-West Provinces in 1877, he was appointed magistrate and collector of the Allahabad district in April 1877, and officiating civil and sessions judge in April 1878. He was on special duty in July 1878 at Naini Tál as a member of the North-West Provinces famine commission. He after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Westland (civil Servant)
Sir James Westland (4 November 1842 – 9 May 1903) was a British financier and colonial administrator. Biography Westland was born in Dundee, the son of James Westland and Agnes Monro. He was educated at Marischal College and gained a place at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich in January 1861, but left the army in July of that year. He subsequently won the entrance exam into the Indian Civil Service. Initially serving as an assistant magistrate and collector in various Bengal districts, Westland was appointed accountant and comptroller-general to the government of India in July 1878. After a brief time in the Egyptian accounts department in 1885, he was a member of Sir Charles Elliott's Indian expenditure commission in February 1886, acted as secretary of the financial department from September 1886, and was temporary finance member of government from August 1887 to November 1888. Westland was made Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1888. He served briefly as Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Fitzpatrick (colonial Administrator)
Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, (26 August 1837 – 20 May 1920) was a British administrator in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he became Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab 1892–1897. Life and career Fitzpatrick was born in Dublin in 1837 the son of a physician, he was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1858 Fitzpatrick passed the Indian Civil Service examination and the following year joined the Punjab Commission. He worked in the Delhi territory as a magistrate until called for special duties related to the government defence of a case brought by the heirs of Begum Samru related to confiscation of estates and seizure of arms during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. As part of his special duties he returned to England in March 1869 and he was called to the bar by the Inner Temple. Returning to India, Fizpatrick became a deputy-secretary in the Legislative Department and in 1876 a Judge of the Chief Court in Lahore. He then became Secretary of the Legislative Departmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Erskine Ward
Sir William Erskine Ward (4 February 1838 – 24 December 1916) was a British Indian Civil Service officer. Ward was the son of Hon. John Petty Ward and Eleanor Erskine, and the great-grandson of Bernard Ward, 1st Viscount Bangor. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. He served as Chief Commissioner of Assam between 1885 and 1887, and was made Companion of the Order of the Star of India in 1888. He served as Chief Commissioner of Assam for a second period between 1891 and 1896. In 1896 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India. His son, Lancelot, was also an officer in the Indian Civil Service and a first-class cricketer. References 1838 births 1916 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 19th-century Anglo-Irish people Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India William William is a masculine given name of Germanic languages, Germanic origin. It became popular in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Alfred Elliott
Sir Charles Alfred Elliott (8 December 1835 – 28 May 1911) was a List of governors of Bengal Presidency#Lieutenant Governors of Bengal (1854–1912), Lieutenant Governor of Bengal. Life He was born on 8 December 1835 at Brighton, was son of Henry Venn Elliott, vicar of St. Mary's, Brighton, by his wife Julia, daughter of John Marshall (MP for Leeds, died 1836), John Marshall of Hallsteads, Ulleswater, who was elected MP for Leeds with Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1832. After some education at Brighton College, Charles was sent to Harrow School, Harrow, and in 1854 won a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1856 the civil service of India was thrown open to public competition. Elliott, abandoning his Cambridge career, was appointed by the directors, under the provisions of the Government of India Act 1853 (16 & 17 Vict c 95), one of fifteen members of the civil service of the East India Company (Despatch, 1 October 1856). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steuart Bayley
Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley, (26 November 1836 – 3 June 1925) was a British civil servant and Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal from 1887 to 1890. Early life He was the son of William Butterworth Bayley, who rose to be acting Governor-General of India, and Anne Augusta Jackson. His middle name is a reference to the well-connected Colvin family of Anglo-Indian administrators, just as John Russell Colvin named his son after his boss, George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland. He was educated at Eton and Haileybury College. Career Bayley entered the Bengal Civil Service in 1856. He held the office of Commissioner of the Patna Division in 1873. He was invested Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India (KCSI) in 1878. He held the office of Chief Commissioner of Assam in 1878. He held the office of Resident at Hyderabad in 1881. He held the office of Member of the Governor-General's Council in 1882. Bayley held the office of Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal between 1887 and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
