UPSC CDS 2 2021 GK Paper

Among the given options, Governor General Warren Hastings was elevated to the aforementioned position after the Regulating Act of 1773. It limited his power by making the Governor-General one member of a five-man Supreme Council. He was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal and so the first de facto Governor-General of Bengal in 1772-1785.