Question

Differentiate between provinces and princely states of India which were there prior to 1947.

Answer 1

Answer:

Princley state : Princley states are the area under king which were ruled by kings and princes there were no direct administration of British on that area. mainly princley state’s king were ruling only for name. Many king shake hands with British because they don’t want to lose their royalty or we can say they were acting as puppets whose thread was played by britishers.

Provinces: Provinces were directly ruled by British administrators by winning the battle against king and nawabs. Many princley state came under britishers by imposing DOCTRINE OF LAPSE . Provinces were also main trading and administrative area