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The [[Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India]] is , often referred to simply as the [['''Board of Control]] and ''', was created after established by the ''East India Company Act '' (Pitt's India Act) of 1784 was brought in . The Board represented an attempt by the British Government to try and regulate oversee the [[East India Company]]in the latter's dealings with India.  The Chancellor of the Exchequer, a Secretary of State, and four Privy Councillors were formed the [[Board of Control]]. The Privy Councillors were nominated by the King. The Board was abolished in 1858, as was Company rule, by the ''Government of India Act, 1858'' which introduced a system of more direct rule by the British Crown.  ==== External links ==== [http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/history/primarydocs/Political_History/ABKeithDoc013.htm East India Company Act, 1784 ''(24 Geo. III, s. 2, c. 25)''] ''Project South Asia : Source Documents and Texts in South Asian Studies.'' [http://projectsouthasia.sdstate.edu/Docs/history/primarydocs/Political_History/ABKeithDoc028.htm Government of India Act, 1858 ''(21 & 22 Vict. c. 106)''] ''Project South Asia : Source Documents and Texts in South Asian Studies.'' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_India_Act_1858 "Government of India Act, 1858"] ''Wikipedia''.