Administrative Policies

Who came to India as Governor-General in 1786, determined to purify the administration, but he realized that the Company's servants would not give honest and efficient service so long as they were not given adequate salaries?

-- Lord Cornwallis

Wellesley, established the College of Fort William at Calcutta for the education of young recruits to the Civil Service. The Directors of the Company disapproved of his action and in 1806 replaced it by their own

-- East Indian College at Haileybury in England

In 1800, This Governor General pointed out that even though civil servants often ruled over vast areas, ....

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