UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 2000 · Q1(b) · 20 marks
Towards the Princes, Canning adopted a policy of “punishing resistance and rewarding obedience.“
- Chapter
- Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935
- Topic
- Princely States and Paramountcy
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