Question

India was divided into many princely
states before the British occupied it.

Answer 1

Before the Partition of India in 1947, about 584 Princely States, also called Native States, existed in India, which were not fully and formally part of British India, the parts of the Indian subcontinent which had not been conquered or annexed by the British but under indirect rule, subject to subsidiary alliances.

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