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princely (states)
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A princely state, also called native
state (legally, under
the British) or Indian state (for those states on the
subcontinent), was a nominally sovereign monarchy under a local or
regional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with a greater power. Though
the history of the princely states of the subcontinent dates from at least the classical period of Indian
history, the predominant usage of
the term princely state specifically refers to a
semi-sovereign principality on the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj that
was not directly governed by the British, but rather by a local ruler under a
form of indirect rule; similar
political entities also existed on or in the region of the Arabian Peninsula, in
Africa and in Malaya, and which were similarly recognized under British
rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and
the suzerainty or paramountcy of
the British. Oman, Zanzibar
and the Trucial States were
also under the British Raj, and were administered in the same manner as the
Indian princely states as part of the Persian Gulf Residency;
however, they were officially categorized as British protectorates, with
differing degrees of autonomy.
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