Evolution of Central and Provincial Arrangement under the East India Company

These were the regulations issued by the Crown for the better government.

Regulating Act of 1773

Reason for the Enactment

• The administration of the Dual Government was shameful to the British Crown.
• The famine followed this in Bengal in 1770.
• The Company was accused of the famine.
• The English officials plundered Bengal.
• Slowly, the Company fell into indebtedness. The Company went bankrupt.

Provisions of the Act

• The Act recons…

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Paramountcy

The Evolution of British Paramountcy

The establishment of paramountcy was the creation of a slow political and military activity. Lord Lytton said that “Paramountcy is a thing of gradual growth, shaped party by conquest, partly by treaty and partly by usage. ”

According to William Lee Warner in his treatise ‘The Native States of India, ’ the three stages of British relation with Indian states followed:

The Ring Fence Po…

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