Timeline of Indian constitution Part -1
By the middle of nineteenth Century most of India was controlled by the British, either directly by the East India Company or through the system of treaties and alliances with the Princely States. During this period certain measures of constitutional reforms were introduced. During the reign of Warren Hastings, the Regulating Act (1773) and Pitts India Act (1784) were passed. Regulating Act (1773): The Regulating Act initiated the process of centralization in India. By 1773 the East India Company was in dire financial straits and asked for assistance from the British Government. Faced with corruption and nepotism amongst the company officials in India, the British Government enacted the Regulating Act in 1773 to control the activities of the Company 1. The Governor of Bengal was made the Governor General. The first man to be appointed to this post was Warren Hastings . 2. For the assistance of the Governor General an executive Council of four members was c...