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Events on Friday 13 August 1784 1
1784Pitt's India Act Reforms British Rule in IndiaParliament establishes government oversight of the East India CompanyThe British Parliament passed Pitt's India Act, creating a Board of Control to oversee the East India Company's political and military affairs while leaving commercial operations to the company. The act was a response to corruption and financial mismanagement exposed in prior decades. It set the pattern for British government involvement in Indian administration until 1858.