The 1784 Pitt’s India Act

The 1784 Pitt’s India Act

The Pitt’s India Act2 of 1784 was the following significant law. This Act’s characteristics were as follows:

1. 1. It made a distinction between the company’s political and commercial operations.
   2. It established a new organization called the Board of Control to oversee political activities while allowing the Court of Directors to oversee business affairs. As a result, it created a double government.
   3. It gave the Board of Control the authority to oversee and manage all aspects of the military and civil administration or income generation of the British colonies in India.

Therefore, the legislation was noteworthy for two reasons: first, the Company’s Indian lands were referred to as “British possessions in India” for the first time; and second, the British Government was granted complete authority over the management of the company’s operations in India.