HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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By the Company
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In the name of the Crown
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By a Board of Directors
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In the name of Governor-General of India
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Government of India Act 1858 was an Act of the British parliament that passed the East India Company’s government and territories to the British Crown. The rule of the company over British territories in India came to an end and it was transferred to the British government directly.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -This system of government was put into place on June 28, 1858, when Queen Victoria, who had been crowned Empress of India in 1876, took over as ruler of the British East India Company following the Indian Rebellion of 1857.