Question

write a short note on the subsidiary alliance(answer in about 75 words)

Answer 1

A subsidiary alliance, in South Asian history, describes a tributary alliance between a Native state and either French India, or later the British East India Company. The pioneer of the subsidiary alliance system was French Governor Joseph François Dupleix, who in the late 1740s established treaties with the Nizam of Hyderabad, and Carnatic[1].

The methodology was subsequently adopted by the East India Company, with Robert Cliveimposing a series of conditions on Mir Jafarof Bengal, following the 1757 Battle of Plassey, and subsequently those in the 1765 Treaty of Allahabad, as a result of the Companies success in the 1764 Battle of Buxar. A successor of Clive, Richard Wellesleyinitially took a non-interventionist policy towards the Native states but later adopted, and refined the policy of forming subsidiary alliances. The purpose and ambition of this change are stated in his February 1804 dispatch to the East India Company Resident in Hyderabad[2]:

Answer 2

Answer:

Subsidiary Alliance

Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by lord Wellesley. According to the terms of it, the Indian rulers signing the Alliance had to

• Station and pay for a british army in their states and disband their own armies.

• expel all non- English foreigners from their court.

• Accept a British Resident in their court.

• in return the British promised to protect Indian ruler against any invasion from outside power.