Appointed as the first Governor General of Bengal and thus the first Governor General of British Ind...........

Modern Indian History Viceroys and Governor Generals

Appointed as the first Governor-General of Bengal, and thus the first Governor-General of British India, he became the British Resident in the Bengali capital of Murshidabad. He was

Colin McKenzie

Warren Hastings

Cornwallis

William Bentick

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Explanation:

He was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of theSupreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785.
Hastings shared Clive's view that the three major British Presidencies (settlements), Madras,Bombay and Calcutta, should all be brought under a single rule rather than being governed separately as they currently were.
The first thing Warren Hastings did was to end the Dual System put forth by his predecessor Clive. When he abolished the system, he cut down the Nawab of Bengal’s Pension to one-half.