Question

Most of the important provinces were placed under the control of princes from the royal family, called ____​

Answer 1

A princely state, also called a native state, feudatory state or Indian state (for those states on the subcontinent)

Answer 2

Answer:

Before the Partition of India in 1947, about 584 princely states, also called "native states", existed in India,[1] 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.