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ARTICLES RELATED TO Princely state - The doctrine of lapse | | | |  Princely state - The doctrine of lapse: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Precedence and prestigeThe gun-salute system was used to set unambiguously the precedence of the major rulers in the area in which the British East India Company was active, or generally of the states and their dynasties. Princely rulers were entitled to be saluted by the firing of an odd number of guns between three and 21, with a greater number of guns indicating greater prestige. (There were many minor rulers who were not entitled to any gun salutes, and as a rule the majority of gun-salute princes had at least nine, with numbers below that usually the p ...
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| | | | Princely state - The doctrine of lapse: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Post Independence
Princely state - India.
On accession by a princely state, its territories and administrations merged into the Union of India. The rulers of the princely states were allowed to retain their hereditary titles and official residences. Depending upon their size, importance and revenue they were also allowed to retain additional properties and given privy purses (in compensation of the state's revenue which now would go the new Union). On abolition of the privy purse (and the right to the hereditary titles) by the government in 1975 the princely stat ...
See also:Princely state, Princely state - Princely status and titles, Princely state - Precedence and prestige, Princely state - Precedence and prestige, Princely state - The doctrine of lapse, Princely state - Governance, Princely state - Accession, Princely state - Post Independence, Princely state - India, Princely state - Pakistan, Princely state - Contributions, Princely state - Other Princely states, Princely state - Sources and References Read more here: » Princely state: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Post Independence |
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| | | | Princely state - The doctrine of lapse: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Accession After independence in 1947, the princely states were forced to accede either to the secular dominion of India or the new Islamic dominion called Pakistan (consisting of West Pakistan and East Pakistan, i.e. East Bengal, later to break away as Bangla Desh, separated by the whole north of India). The accession was to be chosen by its ruling prince, not the residents, akin to the 16th century European principle of cuius regio eius religio. Most acceded peacefully, except for four: Junagadh, Hyderabad, B ...
See also:Princely state, Princely state - Princely status and titles, Princely state - Precedence and prestige, Princely state - Precedence and prestige, Princely state - The doctrine of lapse, Princely state - Governance, Princely state - Accession, Princely state - Post Independence, Princely state - India, Princely state - Pakistan, Princely state - Contributions, Princely state - Other Princely states, Princely state - Sources and References Read more here: » Princely state: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Accession |
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| | | | Princely state - The doctrine of lapse: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Governance By the beginning of the 20th century, The four largest states — Hyderabad, Mysore, Jammu and Kashmir, and Baroda — were directly under the authority of the governor-general, in the person of a resident. Two agencies, Rajputana Agency and Central India Agency, oversaw 20 and 148 princely states, respectively. The remaining princely states had political officers, or agents, who answered to the administrators of India's provinces. Five princely states were under the authority of Madras, 354 of Bombay, 26 of Bengal, 2 of Assam, 34 of Punjab, 15 of Central Pr ...
See also:Princely state, Princely state - Princely status and titles, Princely state - Precedence and prestige, Princely state - Precedence and prestige, Princely state - The doctrine of lapse, Princely state - Governance, Princely state - Accession, Princely state - Post Independence, Princely state - India, Princely state - Pakistan, Princely state - Contributions, Princely state - Other Princely states, Princely state - Sources and References Read more here: » Princely state: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Governance |
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| | | | Princely state - The doctrine of lapse: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Princely status and titles The Indian rulers bore various titles — including Maharaja ("great king"), Badshah and Raja ("king"), Nawab ("governor"), Nizam, Wali, and many other. Whatever the literal meaning and traditional prestige of the ruler's actual title, the British government translated them all as "prince," in order to avoid the implication that the native rulers could be "kings" with status equal to that of the British monarch.
The least prestigious Hindu rul ...
See also:Princely state, Princely state - Princely status and titles, Princely state - Precedence and prestige, Princely state - Precedence and prestige, Princely state - The doctrine of lapse, Princely state - Governance, Princely state - Accession, Princely state - Post Independence, Princely state - India, Princely state - Pakistan, Princely state - Contributions, Princely state - Other Princely states, Princely state - Sources and References Read more here: » Princely state: Encyclopedia II - Princely state - Princely status and titles |
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