By which one of the following Acts was the Governor General of Bengal designated as the Governor General of India?
The Regulating Act
The Pitt's India Act
The Charter Act of 1793
The Charter Act of 1833
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UPSC IAS – 2023
The Charter Act of 1833 is historically significant for centralizing the British administration in India. One of its key provisions was redesignating the Governor-General of Bengal as the Governor-General of India. Lord William Bentinck, who was the Governor-General of Bengal at the time, became the first Governor-General of India under this Act.
This Act marked a shift from the East India Company’s role as a trading body with administrative functions to a purely administrative and political entity governing on behalf of the British Crown. It further consolidated British control over India.