About LORD CORNWALLIS (1786-1793)

• Known as “father of civil services In India” because of Europeanisation of administrative machinery and introduction of civil services.

• Introduced Permanent Settlement of Bengal in 1793.

• First person to codify laws as Cornwallis Code (1793).

• Separation of revenue administration and civil jurisdiction.

Wars:

• Third Mysore War (1790-92)

• Treaty of Seringapatam (1792).