how did subsidairy allince and doctrine of laspe weaken india kingdom
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Rulers were not allowed to their armed forces because of subsidiary alliance, they were not allowed to take taxes from their own citizens instead they have to take care of British army also, that cause heavy lose .
doctrine of lapse not allowed any adopted son of rulers rule the kingdom and there kingdom was captured by British.
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After the battles of Plassey and Buxar the British were no longer an English trading company but had become a rent collector for the Mughals. The East India Company though technically a corporate entity and not an arm of the British crown had learned that there were enormous profits and personal fortunes to be made began to get greedy to subdue more Indian kingdoms until they were nearly stopped by Tipu Sultan.
After his defeat in 1799 the nizam of Hyderabad, the Marathas and all the other Indian rulers realized that they could not resist the huge and well trained armies of the British and Richard Wellesley and meekly disbanded their armies, dismissed their mostly French military advisors, accepted British armies in their capitals and signed Subsidiary alliances that made them toothless tigers. These gave them power but the rulers were rich and could continue to tax their people.
The British then became more greedy and wanted to take over some of these kingdoms and shamelessly used the `policy of lapse’ to take over kingdoms where ever a ruler did not have a legitimate heir as in the case of Jhansi.