The Council of India (1858 – 1935) was an advisory body to the Secretary of State for India , established in 1858 by the Government of India Act 1858 . It was based in London and initially consisted of 15 members. The Council of India was dissolved in 1935 by the Government of India Act 1935 . It is different from the Viceroy's Executive Council based in India, which was the advisory body and cabinet of the Governor-General of India/Viceroy, which was originally established in 1773 as the Council of Four .
6-738: In 1858 the company's involvement in India's government was transferred by the Government of India Act 1858 to the British government . 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). But this new council of India, which assisted
12-537: The "Princes, Chiefs, and People of India", which, among other things, stated, "We hold ourselves bound to the natives of our Indian territories by the same obligation of duty which bind us to all our other subjects" (p. 2) The act ushered in a new period of Indian history, bringing about the end of Company rule in India . The era of the new British Raj would last until the Partition of India in August 1947, when
18-827: The Secretary of State for India contained 15 members. The Council of the Secretary of State, also known as the India Council was based in Whitehall . In 1907, two Indians, Sir Krishna Govinda Gupta and Nawab Syed Hussain Bilgrami , were appointed by Lord Morley as members of the council. Bilgrami retired early in 1910 owing to ill-health and his place was taken by Mirza Abbas Ali Baig. Other members included Raja Sir Daljit Singh (1915–1917), C. Rajagopalachari (1923–1925), Malik Khizar Hayat Tiwana (1924–1934) and Sir Abdul Qadir The Secretary of State's Council of India
24-599: The first Secretary of State for India ), subsequently introduced another bill which was titled "An Act for the Better Governance of India" and it was passed on 2 August 1858. This act provided that India was to be governed directly and in the name of the Crown. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 compelled the British government to pass the act. The act was followed a few months later by Queen Victoria's proclamation to
30-681: The transferral of its functions to the British Crown . Lord Palmerston , then- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , introduced a bill in 1858 for the transfer of control of the government of India from the East India Company to the Crown, referring to the grave defects in the existing system of the government of India. However, before this bill was to be passed, Palmerston was forced to resign on another issue. Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (who would later become
36-530: Was abolished by the Government of India Act 1935 . Government of India Act 1858 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
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