Lord Canning                    1858 – 1862 Lord Rippon                     1880 – 1884 Lord Curzon                     1899 – 1905 Lord Minto                       1905 – 1910 Lord Hardinge                    1910 – 1916 Lord Chelmsford               1916 – 1920
History
Governor General of India
August 15th, 2009 | by Amit Sahrawat | published in History
Warren Hastings               1774 – 1785 Lord Cornwallis                  1786 – 1793 Lord Wellesley                   1798 – 1805 Lord Minto                       1807 – 1813 Lord Hastings                   1813 – 1823
British Rulers of India
August 15th, 2009 | by Amit Sahrawat | published in History
Lord Warren Hastings                  1772 – 1785 Lord. Cornwallis                1786 – 1793 Sir John Shore                     1793 – 1798 Lord Wellesley                    1798 – 1805 Lord Minto I                        1807 – 1813 Lord Hastings                      1813 – 1823
EVEREST HISTORY
June 14th, 2009 | by Amit Sahrawat | published in History
 ‘Conquer’ is the wrong word to use in reference to Everest, say climbers who have witnessed the awful magnificience of the mountain known as Chomolungma to the Tibetans and Sagarmatha in Nepal. ‘You don’t conquer Mount Everest. The mountain allows you to climb her’, they say.
Delhi’s Ashoka Pillars
May 16th, 2009 | by Amit Sahrawat | published in History
Qutub Minar There are three Ashoka Pillars in Delhi interestingly neither of them was constructed here but brought from another city. And each has a fascinating story behind it. The Ashoka Pillors at the Firoz Shah Kotla and North Delhi Ridge are made of sandstone and even predate the Pillar at Qutub (which is made […]