The universities in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were established through the acts of incorporation passed by which governor-general and viceroy in January 1857?

The incorporation Acts of January 1857 that created the universities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were passed during the governor-generalship of Lord Canning.

Lord Curzon came much later and is linked to the Indian Universities Act of 1904, not the founding of these three.

Lord Mountbatten was the last Viceroy at the time of independence in 1947, far removed from 1857.

Lord Linlithgow served as Viceroy in the late 1930s and early 1940s, unconnected to these charters.

These three were the first modern universities in India, modelled on the University of London.

Canning also became the first Viceroy of India after the Crown took over administration in 1858.