Importance of Pitt’s India Act

It brought many important changes in the constitution of the Company. It constituted a dept of state in England known as the Board of Control whose special function was to control the policy if the Court of Directors. The Act helped the unification of India by making the Governor-General supreme over the Governors of the other presidencies. The deletion of the one member from the Executive Council of the Governor-General made his position stronger. The British Parliament claimed supremacy over the possessions of the Company in India. This Act made it clear that Company’s direct relation is with trade and not with politics.