Question
Under which of the following Acts, Christian missionaries were allowed to preach religion in India?
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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