Chakeravarthi Rajagopalachari was the first Indian governor general of  independent India.

Dr. Rajagopalachari remained India's Governor-General until  the Constitution was approved and came into existence on 26 January  1950.



Once the constitution came into being, the post of Governor-General  was done away with and replaced by the President.



Thus, Dr.  Rajagopalachari was the only Governor-General of Indian origin ever, though Lord  Mountbatten has the distinction of being the first Governor-General of  independent India.


						

							




 
Before Independence, Warren Hastings was the first Governor General of  India. He occupied this position from 1773 to 1784.
Hastings was born at  Churchill, Oxfordshire. He joined the British East India Company in 1750 as a  clerk. In 1757, Warren Hastings became the British Resident of Murshidabad and  in 1761 he was appointed to the Calcutta council. Warren Hastings went back to  England in 1764. He returned to India in 1769 as a member of the Madras council  and was made Governor of Bengal in 1772. In 1773, Hastings was appointed the  first Governor-General of India.