The British East India Company ceased to be a trading Company via which among the following legislation?
Q. The British East India Company ceased to be a trading Company via which among the following legislation?
Answer: Charter Act of 1833
Notes: The charter act 1833: It is considered to be an attempt to codify all Indian Laws. The Governor General of Bengal now became the The Governor General of India. One of the Provision of this act – “the East India Company now lost its trading privilege i.e., tea and monopoly in China ,henceforth it became a purely administrative body under the crown.”

 

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