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    Question

    Under which of the following Acts, Christian

    missionaries were allowed to preach religion in India?
    A Charter Act 1726 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Pitt's India Act, 1784 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Charter Act, 1793 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Charter Act, 1813 Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    The Charter Act, 1813 was passed in view of the demand of Christian missionaries for more autonomy in India, to end the Company's monopoly, to establish more effective control over it. By this Charter Act, for the first time Christian missionaries were allowed to preach religion in India. By the same act all other commercial monopolies of the Company were abolished except the monopoly of trade with China and tea trade.

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