how was the subsidiary alliance a good way of territorial expansion by the British?
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Explanation:
Why did the British introduce a subsidiary alliance?
British during the 1800’s were giants in Europe and the world and their supremacy was known. As they had already lost America in 1784 and did not want to loose India in direct battle they divided many plans. One of the major reasons for subsidiary alliance and other such schemes were:
They knew India is huge and cannot be won with millitary might, so they thought to break them from within.
They knew Indian kings are lazy and they would want to outsource their administration and war so using this, the Britishers took money and land from them and when the kings were completely weekend they took over the kingdom in the name of bad goverence by the king
The policy of using one king against the other so that they never lose anything. For eg if they were fighting french in Carnatic it was the army of nawab of arcot on one side and some other prince on the other side so you know they were never on loss
Since the company had a tight grip on Indian politics, they could now govern the whole of asiaAsia
Looking at this, we can conclude that it was step one of breaking India and then combining it for themselves.
Subsidiary alliance played a major role in their conquest and hence it is called a diplomatic conquest of India