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CHARTER ACT 1833#Historicalbackground◇
Governor-General of Bengal now made the
Governor- General of India and vested in him all
civil and
military powers.◇ It deprived the
Governor of Bombay and
Madras of their
legislative powers. ◇ It ended the activities of the East India Company as a commercial body, which became a purely
administrative body.◇ Attempted to introduce a system of
open competition for selection of civil servants and stated that the Indians should
not be debarred from holding any place, office and employment under the Company.
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