UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1991 · Q1(d) · 20 marks
‘The relations of the Native States, however conducted are essentially relations with the British Crown and not with the Indian Government.’
- Chapter
- Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
- Topic
- Princely States and Paramountcy
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