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Fixed tenure of the Governor-General at five years, renewable with the approval of the Court of Directors of the East India Company	1773 Regulating Act	100%
Commander-in-Chief was not to be a member of the Governor-General’s council unless he was so appointed.	1793 Charter Act	100%
Abolished the trade monopoly of the Company in India except tea and trade with China.	1813 Charter Act	100%
Provided for the spread of Western education among the inhabitants of British territories in India	1813 Charter Act	100%
Allowed the Christian missionaries to come to India for the purpose of enlightning the people	1813 Charter Act	100%
Asserted the sovereignty of British Crown over the company territories in India ✅	1813 Charter Act	100%
Lord William Bentick was the first Governor General of India	1833 Charter Act	100%
Deprived the governor of Bombay and Madras of their legislative powers and GGoI was given exclusive legislative powers for the entity of British India	1833 Charter Act	100%
Attempted to Introduce the system of open competition for selection of civil servants	1833 Charter Act	100%
Ended the activities of the East India company as a commercial body which became a purely administrative body ✝️	1833 Charter Act	100%
All restrictions on European immigration and the acquisition of property in India were lifted. Wholesale colonization ✅	1833 Charter Act	100%
Company's territories in India were held by it in trust for His Majesty, His Heirs and successors.	1833 Charter Act	100%
A Law Member was appointed to the Governor-General’s Council.1️⃣	1833 Charter Act	100%
Introduced and open competition system of selection and recruitment of civil servants, open to Indians also	1853 Charter Act	100%
The law member became permanent member of Governor-General’s Executive Council 1️⃣	1853 Charter Act	100%
Ended the system of double govt by abolishing the Board of control and Court of Directors	1858 Act for the Better Govt	100%
Guv Gen of India to be Viceroy of India	1858 Act for the Better Govt	100%
15 member council of India to assist the secretary of state for India	1858 Act for the Better Govt	100%
Secretary of State - in Council for India as a corporate body could be sued in England + India	1858 Act for the Better Govt	100%
Members of Council of Secretary of State Removed only on petition presented to the British Crown by both Parl House.	1858 Act for the Better Govt	100%
Legislative powers of council of Bombay and Madras were restored. Deprived in 1833	1861 Indian Council Act	100%
Governor Gen ' s Executive Council was enlarged into a Central Legislative Council🧧	1861 Indian Council Act	100%
Lord Canning nominated three Indians to the Central Legislative Council: the Raja of Benaras, the Maharaja of Patiala, and Sir Dinkar Rao.	1861 Indian Council Act	100%
Introduced the portfolio system	1861 Indian Council Act	100%
Allowed both Central and Provincial Legislative Councils to discuss the 💰 budget under certain conditions.	1892 Indian Council Act	100%
Separate Electorates for the Muslims, Big Landlords and British Capitalists. ( LORD MORLEY was the then Secretary of State for India.)	1909 Indian Council Act	100%
Gave the people of the country a shadow rather than substance. : Aurobindo	1909 Indian Council Act	100%
Satyendra Prasad Sinha was appointed as a law member in the Viceroy’s Executive Counci	1909 Indian Council Act	100%
Right to ask supplementary questions , move resolutions on the 💰 budget and so on.	1909 Indian Council Act	100%
Dyarchy was introduced in the province.( Lord Chelmsford was Viceroy of India then.) Reserved Subjects and Transferred subjects at Provincial level	1919 Government of India Act	100%
Separate electorate for Sikhs, Christians and Anglo - Indians and Europeans.	1919 Government of India Act	100%
For the first time, the provincial budget 💰 was separated from the central budget	1919 Government of India Act	100%
Indian legslative Council was replaced by a bicameral 2️⃣ legislature at central level ⏺️ Upper House → Council of State 60 members (34 elected + 26 nominated), 5-year tenure Forerunner of today's Rajya Sabha ⚫ Lower House → Central Legislative Assembly (CLA) 145 members (104 elected + 41 nominated), 3-year tenure Forerunner of today's Lok Sabha. Vitthalbhai Patel became head of this house in 1925	1919 Government of India Act	100%
Introduced the office of a ‘Vice-President’ at both the centre and the provinces.	1919 Government of India Act	100%
Recommended holding of simultaneous civil service exams in England + India	1919 Government of India Act	100%
Bengal, Bombay, Madras, Bihar, Assam, United Provinces. These 6 provinces got bicameralism	1935 Government of India Act	100%
Federal Assembly + Council of State — renamed & expanded)	1935 Government of India Act	100%
Abolished Dyarchy in the provinces and introduced Provincial Autonomy	1935 Government of India Act	100%
Dyarchy at the center	1935 Government of India Act	100%
Separate Electorates for Scheduled Castes, Women, Labour.	1935 Government of India Act	100%
Extended franchise about 14% of the total population got the voting right	1935 Government of India Act	100%
Provided for the establishment of RBI, Federal Public Service Commission, Federal Court, Federal Railway Authority and Auditor General of India .	1935 Government of India Act	100%
It established the Supreme Court at Calcutta.	1773 Regulating Act	0%
It distinguished between the commercial and political functions of the East India Company	1784 Pitt’s India Act	0%
The Act reduced the Governor-General’s Council from four to three members, thereby streamlining decision-making and giving greater authority to the Governor-General.	1784 Pitt’s India Act	0%
A sum of ₹ one lakh was to be set aside for the revival, promotion, and encouragement of literature...	1813 Charter Act	0%
The debts of the Company to be taken over by the Government of India.	1833 Charter Act	0%
Separated for the first time the legislative and executive functions of the Governor General's Council ✨	1853 Charter Act	0%
Introduced local representation in the Indian (Central) Legislative Council for the first time	1853 Charter Act	0%
The revenues of India were now controlled by the British Parliament	1853 Charter Act	0%
Act empowered the Governor General to issue an ordinance in case of emergency.	1861 Indian Council Act	0%
The Indian nationalists raised the slogan ‘no taxation without representation’	1892 Indian Council Act	0%
Proposed the establishment of a Chamber of Princess also known as Narendra Mandal	1919 Government of India Act	0%
Created executive councils in the provinces of Bombay, Madras and West-Bengal	1919 Government of India Act	0%
Salaries of Secretary of state for India and his assistants were to be paid out of the British revenue.	1919 Government of India Act	0%
A High Commissioner for India at London was appointed.	1919 Government of India Act	0%
The federal system of the Government was introduced for the first time	1935 Government of India Act	0%

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