Subsidiary Alliance:
- Lord Wellesley introduced a new plan known as ‘Subsidiary Alliance’, to stop the French from becoming the strongest power in India and to make British rule the supreme power in the native states of India.
- The princely states that accepted this policy had to keep and maintain the British army as well as have a British representative in the Royal Court.
- This is how the British maintained their Army without spending money. At the same time they started enslaving and threatening the princely states.
Kings who had accepted the Subsidiary Alliance thought that the British were their friends and would protect them. So they became irresponsible and their administration started deteriorating.
Annexation Policy:
Dalhousie brought in the policy of Annexation which meant bringing an end to the rules of native kings and bringing his state under the British fule directly.
- Absolute mismanagement of states due to irresponsible kings enabled Dalhousie to annex many states.
- If a king died without a son, his state was annexed. For e.g., Satara, Jaitpur, Jhansi, Sambalpur, Nagpur, Arkat, Tanjore, Karnataka, etc.
- Other states l were annexed by defeating them in battle.
For e.g. he annexed Punjab by defeating the Sikhs. Another example is Myanmar. Thus, Lord Dalhousie made British rule I free from rivals with the help of ‘Victory, Confiscation p and Annexation’.
