Question

draw a outline map of India and identify the areas which were occupied by theBritish 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.