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What kind of administrative change were introduced in India under the East India Company?

  • UPSC 1993
  • Early Structure of the British Raj

Between 1773 and 1858, the East India Company was transformed by successive Parliamentary statutes from an unsupervised commercial monopoly into a centralised, codified, and increasingly Crown-controlled administrative machine.

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  • From Dual Government to Direct Company Rule
  • The Regulating Act (1773) and Pitt's India Act (1784)
  • Cornwallis' Administrative and Civil Service Reforms
  • The Charter Acts: Codification and Centralisation

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