Archive for month: April, 2025

According to some scholars, the conversion of mercantilist policy into Laissez Faire proved an important factor. But according to...

INTRODUCTION The development of modern Europe between the 1780s and 1849 was an unprecedented economic transformation that embraced the...

first step taken by the British Government to control and regulate the affairs of the East India Company in...

 To rectify the defects of the Regulating Act of 1773, the British Parliament passed the Amending Act of 1781,...

Indian affairs came under direct control of the British Government in Britain. Distinguished between the commercial and political functions...

Lord Cornwallis was appointed as the Governor-General of Bengal. He placed two demands to accept that post, viz., He...

It extended the overriding power given to Lord Cornwallis over his council, to all future Governor-Generals and Governors of...

It ended the monopoly of the EIC in India  except the company’s monopoly in “trade with China” and “trade...

Final step towards Centralization.  Governor General of Bengal became the Governor General of India (Lord William Bentinck was the...

Separated the legislative and executive functions of the Governor General’s council. (Separation of powers) Provided for addition of six...