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CHARTER ACT OF 1833
Charter Act of 1833 :
↳ Steps towards centralization in British India.
↳ It designates the Governor General of Bengal as the "Governor General of India".
• Lord William Bentick was the first Governor General of India.
↳ With this Act, the Governors of Bombay and Madras lost their legislative powers.
↳ The Act ended the activities of the EIC as a commercial body and converted it into a purely administrative body.
↳ It tried to introduce a system of open competition for the selection of civil servants.
↳ For the first time a Law Commission was appointed and the head of the Commission was "Lord Macaulay".
↳ Steps towards centralization in British India.
↳ It designates the Governor General of Bengal as the "Governor General of India".
• Lord William Bentick was the first Governor General of India.
↳ With this Act, the Governors of Bombay and Madras lost their legislative powers.
↳ The Act ended the activities of the EIC as a commercial body and converted it into a purely administrative body.
↳ It tried to introduce a system of open competition for the selection of civil servants.
↳ For the first time a Law Commission was appointed and the head of the Commission was "Lord Macaulay".