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How did the ruling families try to negotiate with the company to protect their interest

Answer 1

Indian ruling families signed subsidiary alliance with Britishers thinking that there interest will be protected. But later they got trapped and British got control over their territory.Answer:

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Answer 2

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Several ruling families made a concerted effort to negotiate with the Company to ensure to further their interests. 

• For example, following her husband's passing, Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi sought for the Company to accept her adopted son as the legitimate heir to the throne.
• When Peshwa Baji Rao II passed away, Nana Saheb, who was Peshwa Baji Rao II's adoptive son, pleaded to inherit his father's pension. However, the Company disregarded these requests because it was sure of its superiority and military power.
• One of the last regions to be annexed was Awadh. Awadh was coerced into a subsidiary alliance in 1801, and it was seized in 1856.

• The territory, as per Governor-General Dalhousie, was being mishandled, and British rule was capable of enforcing proper administration.
• The Company also began devising plans for how to end the Mughal monarchy.
• The Company's coins were produced but without Mughal king's name on them.
• After Bahadur Shah Zafar died suddenly in 1849, Governor-General Dalhousie ordered that the royal family would be removed from the Red Fort and granted a new place in Delhi.
• Bahadur Shah Zafar was the final Mughal ruler, and after his death, neither of his heirs would be acknowledged as kings; instead, they would be addressed to as princes, as per Governor-General Canning's decree from 1856.

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