HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Court of Directors
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Board of Directors
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Board of Control
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Board of Merchants
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India (commonly known as the India Board or the Board of Control) was an arm of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for managing the government’s interest in British India and the East India Company between 1784 and 1858.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pitt’s India Act of 1784 was passed to remove the defects of the Regulating Act of 1773. It differentiated the commercial and political affairs of the Company. Thus it established a system of double government in India by Crown in Great Britain and the British East India Company.
Detailed explanation-3: -It prohibited the servants of company from engaging in any private trade or accepting presents or bribes from the “natives". The Act elevated Governor of Bengal, Warren Hastings to Governor-General of Bengal and subsumed the presidencies of Madras and Bombay under Bengal’s control.