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“The need to impose greater parliamentary control over the Company’s affairs increased during the decades (1773-1853) after Plassey.” Elucidate.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Early Structure of the British Raj

The Battle of Plassey (1757) turned a commercial corporation into a territorial sovereign, and it is this unresolved contradiction that drove nearly a century of British parliamentary legislation on India.

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  • The Structural Roots of the Problem: Diwani and Dual Government
  • Financial Scandal and the Bankruptcy Crisis (leading to 1773)
  • The Failure of Regulation and the Move to Dual Control (1784)
  • Renewed Charters as Recurring Occasions for Control (1793-1813)
  • From Commercial Body to Administrative Trustee (1833)
  • The Final Phase: Territorial Expansion and Institutional Exhaustion (1853)
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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