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What is subsidiary alliance? Explain the system of subsidiary alliance? (5marks) ​

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Subsidiary Alliance

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Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by Lord WELLESLEY . It was an argument between the British East India Company and Indian Princely STATES by VIRTUE of which these states lost their sovereignty.Means by signing this argument Indian Princely State will lost the power to rule their states without any outside interfaces.

The states which agreed to Subsidiary Alliance has to:-

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  1. Accept British as Supreme Power.
  2. States virtually lost their independence.
  3. They have to maintain British TROOPS at their own cost.
  4. They have to agree that they will not enter into any alliance with other powers and would not wage wars.
  5. They have to accept British as head and they will not employ any other EUROPEAN in their services without consulting Company.

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Effects:-

  1. All the States become puppets of British.
  2. British become supreme power.



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