UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1989 · Q1(b) · 20 marks
‘If the paramount power cast its imperial cloak over the princes, it was also entitled to see that what was sheltered was in the main creditable.’
- Chapter
- Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
- Topic
- Princely States and Paramountcy
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