Explain the system of “subsidiary alliance”.
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The following were the features of the system of Subsidiary Alliance given by Lord Wellesley:
a) According to this alliance, Indian rulers were not allowed to form their own independent armed forces.
b) Indian rulers accepting the Subsidiary Alliance were not allowed to form an alliance with another ruler, nor could they declare war against any power without the permission of English rulers.
c) The Indian rulers accepting this system were to agree to the stationing of the British contingent force for whose maintenance they would pay a subsidy.
d) He would allow a British resident to stay in his state.
e) He would not employ any Europeans other than the English and if there was already any, he would dismiss them.
f) In return for acknowledging the British Company, an army of English was to protect them but the ruler had to pay for the Subsidiary forces.
g) If any ruler failed to make the payment, then part of his territory was taken away as the penalty.
JAI SHREE RAM
Answer:
The Subsidiary Alliance System was “Non-Intervention Policy” used by Lord Wellesley who was the Governor-General (1798-1805) to establish the British Empire in India. According to this system, every ruler in India had to accept to pay a subsidy to the British for the maintenance of the British army