Question

5. Write a note on Subsidiary Alliance.

Answer 1

A subsidiary alliance, in South Asian history, describes a tributary alliance between a Native state and either French India, or later the British East India Company. The pioneer of the subsidiary alliance system was French Governor Joseph François Dupleix, who in the late 1740s established treaties with the Nizam of Hyderabad, and Carnatic[1].

The methodology was subsequently adopted by the East India Company, with Robert Cliveimposing a series of conditions on Mir Jafarof Bengal, following the 1757 Battle of Plassey, and subsequently those in the 1765 Treaty of Allahabad, as a result of the Companies success in the 1764 Battle of Buxar. A successor of Clive, Richard Wellesleyinitially took a non-interventionist policy towards the the Native states but later adopted, and refined the policy of forming subsidiary alliances. The purpose and ambition of this change are stated in his February 1804 dispatch to the East India Company Resident in Hyderabad[2]:

Answer 2

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Subsidiary Alliance System:

- The Subsidiary Alliance system of doctrine was introduced by Lord Richard Wellesley from 1798 to 1805.

According to it:

♦   Any Indian ruler accepting the subsidiary alliance with East India Company had to keep the British Army within their territory and was supposed to pay for its maintenance.  

♦ In lieu of the payments, some of the states territory was ceded to the British.

♦ The ruler accepting it was forced to keep a British official at the court called 'Resident'.

♦ The states brought under British control by this system included Hyderabad,  Gwalior, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur , Oudh.

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