UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1987 · Q1(b) · 20 marks
‘The British endeavoured as far as possible to live within a Ring-Fence and beyond that they avoided intercourse with the chiefs.’
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- Dalhousie and the Policy towards Indian States
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