A History of British India
Season 1
Ep 14. Princely States and Royalist Relationships
- TV-PG
- January 6, 2017
- 30 min
India's princely states played a crucial role in maintaining British power. Examine the history of the princely kingdoms, and why they remained separate from British-controlled territory. Follow how the British cultivated ties of loyalty with Indian princes and exerted "indirect rule." Explore the contradiction of a modernizing British Raj that supported feudal princes.