Constitutional Development Act 1773 (in Hindi)

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R K Shukla

Regulating Act This was the first step of the British Government to control the affairs of East India Company in India. The Company, through a charter, had only been given trading rights by British Crown. When it acquired territories in India, It slowly converted itself into a ruling body. The parliament could not accept and regularize this development. Regulating Act 1773 for the first time recognized the political and administration functions of the company and laid the foundation of central Administration in India. Features of the Act 1773     1  The Act elevated Governor of Bengal Warren Hastings to Governor General   and subsumed the presidencies of Madras and Bombay under Bengal’s control.     2. The Act named four Additional members to serve with the Governor General   of Bengal in the Calcutta Council. These councilors were commonly known as the Council of four.     3.A Supreme Court was established at Fort William in Calcutta comprising one Chief Justice and three other Judges. British Judges were to be sent to India to administer the British Legal System that was use there.     4.It strengthened the control of the British Government over the Company by requiring the Court of Director to report on its revenue, civil, military, affairs in India.     5.While rectifying the defects of the regulating Act of 1773, the British Parliament passed the Act known as Amending Act of 1781. It was also known as Act of Settlement.  Among  many things, it was deprived of its right to Action arising in the collection of revenue. Pitts India Act 1784 The shortcoming of the Regulating Act soon became obvious. The East India Company Act 1784, also Known as Pitt’s India Act (William Pitt was prime minister of Britain at that time), was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain intended to address the shortcomings of the Regulating Act of 1773, by bringing the East India Company’s rule in India under the control of the British Government.