Question

Powers and functions of of the secretary of state for India under the Government of India Act 1858

Answer 1

Answer:

This act is also know as the Act for the Good Government of India, which abolished east india company & transferred powers to the British Crown!

1. Created a new office secretary of state for India who was vested with complete authority and complete control of Indian administration.
2. secretary of state was a British cabinet member and thus responsible fir the British Parliament.
3. Established 15 member council of India to assist ṭhe secretary of state for India and council served as an advisory body.
4. Secretary of state was the chairman of the council
5. It Constituted the secretary of state-in-council as a body corporate, capsule of suing and being sued in India & in England!

Thus the act of 1858 was largely confined to the improvement of administrative machinery by which the Indian government was to be supervised and controlled in England. If did not alter in any substantial way the system of government that prevailed in India