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The Government of India Act 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 106) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed on 2 August 1858. Its provisions called for the liquidation of the East India Company (who had up to this point been ruling British India under the auspices of Parliament) and the transferral of its functions to the British Crown.
4th Horse (Hodson's Horse) is a part of the Armoured Corps of the Indian Army, which had its beginnings as an irregular cavalry regiment during the time of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. British and Native Officers of Hodson's Horse, 1858 (Photograph by Felix Beato) [nb 1] Afghan Sikh Officers of Hodson's Horse during the Indian Rebellion, 1858
In 1858 the company's involvement in India's government was transferred by the Government of India Act 1858 to the British government. [3] The act created a new governmental department in London, the India Office, headed by the cabinet-ranking Secretary of State for India, who was in turn to be advised by a new Council of India (also based in London).
The Company lost all its administrative powers; its Indian possessions, including its armed forces, were taken over by the Crown pursuant to the provisions of the Government of India Act 1858. A new British government department, the India Council, was created to handle the governance of India, and its head, the Secretary of State for India ...
After the transfer of the rule of India from the East India Company to the British Crown through the Government of India Act 1858, the Governor General's Bodyguard was renamed to the Viceroy's Bodyguard. The subsequent recruitment and selection was from various elite regiments and units of the British Indian Army.
The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.. The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company (EIC) until the Government of India Act 1858 directly under Crown, passed in the House of Commons aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, transferred all three ...
1835 East India Company quarter anna, part of the unified coinage introduced that year 1840 East India Company rupee. It was minted in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. The English East India Company was granted a royal charter by Queen Elizabeth I which allowed trade monopoly with eastern countries including Sumatra, Java, and India.
The company's powers were removed in 1858 after the Indian Mutiny, and the British Crown assumed direct control of India and monarch took the title of Emperor of India in 1876. During the British Raj , new medals and orders were established and were awarded for the services to the Crown and the Indian Empire by Europeans and Indians of British ...