INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -On August 2, 1858, less than a month after Canning proclaimed the victory of British arms, Parliament passed the Government of India Act, transferring British power over India from the East India Company, whose ineptitude was primarily blamed for the mutiny, to the crown.

Detailed explanation-2: -The British Parliament passed a new act in 1858.

Detailed explanation-3: -Government of India Act, 1858 is also known as the act of good governance. Parliament to hand over administrative control of British India from the East India Company. The act made India a direct British Colony and abolished the dual government proposed by the Pitt’s India Act of 1784.