On 13 September 1783, the Board of Directors of the East India Company passed a resolution at Fort William, to create a department that would help “relieve the pressure” on the Warren Hastings administration in conducting its “secret and political business”. Those were difficult times for the East India Company, having just barely saved face against the Maratha Empire in the First Anglo-Maratha War, and losing to Hyder Ali in the South. The British Parliament was about to pass the Pitts India Act, 1784, which would further limit the independent powers of the East India Company. This department expanded its outreach to diplomacy, to finally become the IFS.
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