THE CHARTER ACT OF 1833

                            THE CHARTER ACT OF 1833 

• The lease of  20 years to the company was further extended. Territories of India were to be governed in the name  the crown.
• The company's monopoly over trade with chin and in tea also ended.
• All restriction on European immigration and the acquisition of property in India were lifted. Thus, the way was paved for the wholesale European colonization of India.
• In, India a financial, legislative and administrative centralization of the government was envisaged :   

     --The governor-general was given the power to superintend, control and direct all civil and military affairs of he company.

    --Bengal, Madras, Bombay and all other territories were placed under complete control of the governor-general.

   --All revenues were to be raised under the authority of the governor-general who would have complete control over the expenditure too.

   --The governments of Madras and Bombay were drastically deprived of their legislative powers and left with a right of  proposing to the governor-general the projects of law which they thought to be expedient.

   --A law member was added to the governor-general's council for professional advice on law-making.

  --Indian laws were to be codified and consolidated.

  --No indian citizen was to be denied employment under the company on the basic of religion, colour, birth, descent, etc.(Although the reality was different, this declaration formed for sheet -anchor of political agitation in India.)

  --The administration was urged to take steps to ameliorate the conditions of slaves and to ultimately abolish slavery.(Slavery was abolished in 1843