UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1984 · Q1(b) · 20 marks
‘ ....... if we could keep a number of Native States without political power, but as royal instruments, we should exist in India as long as our naval supremacy was maintained.’
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- Dalhousie and the Policy towards Indian States
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