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Revision note: Company Administration: Regulating Acts, Civil Services, Judiciary and Education (1773–1857)


  • Regulating Act 1773: Governor-General of Bengal (Warren Hastings), Supreme Court Calcutta 1774
  • Pitt's India Act 1784: Board of Control + Court of Directors (dual control)
  • Charter Acts: 1813 trade monopoly ends, ₹1 lakh education; 1833 Governor-General of India (Bentinck); 1853 open competition
  • Cornwallis: civil services, Cornwallis Code 1793, thanas
  • Wellesley: Fort William College 1800; Haileybury 1806
  • IPC 1860 (Macaulay); High Courts Act 1861; Police Act 1861
  • Education: Macaulay's Minute 1835; Wood's Despatch 1854; universities 1857
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