UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1986 · Q1(d) · 20 marks
‘It is sometimes asked by Ruling Chiefs, as well as by the public in India and in Europe what our policy towards Native States is. I can tell you that the basis of the policy was laid in Queen Victoria’s Proclamation of 1858 and repeated in the Coronation message of His Majesty the King Emperor.’
- Chapter
- Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
- Topic
- Princely States and Paramountcy
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