Question

Draw a outline map of India and identify the areas which were occupied by the British under the Doctrine of subsidiary alliance

Answer 1

The subsidiary alliance, in South Asian history to describe an alliance between princely states and the British East India Company.

It was framed by Lord Wellesley, British Governor-General in India from 1798 to 1805. Early in his governorship, Wellesley adopted a policy of non-intervention in the princely states, but he later adopted the policy of forming subsidiary alliances, which played a major role in the expansion of British rule in India.