Which of the following Acts directed the Governor-General in Council to take steps both for the amelioration of slaves in India and to propose measures for the abolition of slavery throughout India?

Of all the Acts passed by the British Parliament to regulate the affairs of the East India Company, the Charter Act of 1833 stands out as the most comprehensive and far reaching in effect.

The Act directed the Governor-General in Council to take steps both for the amelioration of slaves in India and to propose measures for the abolition of slavery throughout India.

Note: While the Regulating Act had initiated a process of centralisation by creating the Office of the Governor-General, the Act of 1833 marked the culmination of that process by establishing the complete mastery of the Governor-General in Council over the entire British Indian administration. From 1833 to 1861, when the Indian Councils Act was passed, British India was in the grip of this highly centralised system of administration, which had its impact on the character of the British Government in India, until its disappearance in 1947.