Princely states

type of vassal state in British India

policy of the British East India Company, in force until 1858, that British India will annex any Indian princely state under British suzerainty if its ruler was “incompetent” (according to British judgment) or died without a male heir

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institution of the rulers of the princely states of India

alliance between a dominant nation and a nation that it dominates

former Sultanate of the Maldives which ruled until 1968, when the monarchy was abolished

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