Long answer questions
1. What were the reasons for the conflicts
between the Company and the local
rulers?
2. How were Indian kingdoms annexed
through the policy of subsidiary alliance?
Name some kingdoms that were
annexed based on this policy.
3. What were the new administrative
measures set up by the British in Indian
districts?
4. What were the reforms introduced
by Warren Hastings in the system of
justice? Were there any problems in the
interpretation of laws? How were the
problems overcom?
Answers
Answer:
a) the reason behind the conflict between company and local ruler was the purpose of the company was to have a stronghold over a country of trade to gain more profit .
one of the most important reason was that the river of company flows and go towards strait to the local ruler .
Answer:
Subsidiary Alliance- The Subsidiary Alliance system was a method perfected by Lord Wellesley to subjugate Indian powers without the cost and botheration of war. Any Indian ruler, whose security was threatened, was encouraged to seek help and enter into an alliance with the English, who promised to protect the ruler from external attacks and internal revolts. The Indian ruler had to accept certain terms and conditions. This arrangement was known as Subsidiary Alliance.
Doctrine of Lapse- It was a policy of the British East India Company under which if the ruler of a princely state or territory under the paramountcy of the Company died without a natural heir, the state/territory would automatically be annexed to the British empire.