ABSTRACT
The previous section tried to show how opinion in Britain came to recognize that in its rule over the provinces which it had recently acquired the Company must be made accountable not only to its shareholders but to the public as a whole, and that the state had a right and a duty to intervene in the government of India. It also described the machinery which was gradually brought into being to enable the state to intervene. This section will be concerned with the results that followed from the state’s acceptance of responsibility: with the extent to which effective supervision of the government of India from London was possible, and with the principles and standards which the authorities at home sought to instil into the Company’s administration.
