write the terms of subsidiary Alliance
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under subsidiary alliance indian rulers were not allowed to have their own independent armed forces they were to be protected by the east india company.
but had to pay for the subsidiary forces. if a ruler failed to pay the payment a part of his territory would be taken away.
Awadh and Hyderabad were states who lost their territory on this stage
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Subsidiary Alliance System:
- The Subsidiary Alliance system of doctrine was introduced by Lord Richard Wellesley from 1798 to 1805.
According to it:
♦ Any Indian ruler accepting the subsidiary alliance with East India Company had to keep the British Army within their territory and was supposed to pay for its maintenance.
♦ In lieu of the payments, some of the states territory was ceded to the British.
♦ The ruler accepting it was forced to keep a British official at the court called 'Resident'.
♦ The states brought under British control by this system included Hyderabad, Gwalior, Indore, Jaipur, Jodhpur , Oudh.
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