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For administrative purposes British India was subdivided into the following units:
Main administrative units
Political units
While British India did administratively not include the princely states , which remained nominally outside the British Raj , [1] under the administration of their own rulers, the relationship of the British with these states was managed by:
Still, the British authorities recurred to the doctrine of lapse when they decided to interfere in the internal matters of a princely state. [2]
See also
References
- ↑ Great Britain India Office. The Imperial Gazetteer of India . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.
- ↑ William Cooke Taylor, A Popular History of British India
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