Question

Discuss in detail any two policies used by the British to annex the Indian territories. How did it serve with interest of the British?​

Answer 1

Subsidiary alliance
And the system in which the state would be annexed if the king had no heir


The British gained revenue as well as land

Answer 2

Explanation:

The two policies used by the British to annex the Indian territories are as follows:

Doctrine of Lapses:

• The principle of lapsed was a policy in 1848 by the Governor General of British India, Lord Dalhousie, to deal with questions related to succession of Hindu Indian states in Indian history.

• This was the basis of the principle of Paramatta, through which Great Britain claimed the administration of the subordinate Indian states and the administration of their succession as the ruler of the Indian subcontinent.
• It was an expansionist policy.
• The governor generals of the company created many rules for the purpose of mixing Indian states in the British Empire.
• For example: when a king was childless, his kingdom became part of the British Empire. Due to state grab policy, there was a lot of dissatisfaction among Indian kings. This policy had an important role in the birth of Indian resistance against the British rule in 1857.

Subsidiary Alliance:

• Subsidiary Alliancewas used by Lord Wellesley (1798-1805) for the expansion of the English state in India.
• The first Indian ruler to accept the treaty of Lord Wellesley was the Nizam of Hyderabad. In 1798 Nizam accepted the treaty of Lord Wellesley.
• It is known that the Nawab of Awadh in November 1801, Peshwa Bajirao II acknowledged the treaty of Veselagei in December 1801, Mysore and Tanjore in 1799, in December 1803 in Barar Bhosla and in Sindhia of Gwalior, in February 1804.
• In addition, Indian kings of Jodhpur, Jaipur, Machhhedhi, Bundi and Bharatpur also accepted the treaty.