UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1992 · Q1(b) · 20 marks
‘No native state should be left to exist in India which is not upheld by the British power or the political conduct of which is not under the absolute control’
- Chapter
- British Expansion in India
- Topic
- Dalhousie and the Policy towards Indian States
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