1. Hyderabad
2. Awadh
3. Indore
4. Udaipur and Jodhpur
5. Tanjore
6. Peshwa 
7. Gwalior
8. Jaipur
9. Bhonsle

1. Haider Ali's growing power and his friendly relations with the French became a matter of concern for the English East India Company.
2. The Marathas, the Nizam and the English entered into a triple alliance against Haider Ali.

1. Mir Jafar ascended the throne after the Battle of Plassey and failed to accept the demand of British
2. Mir Jafar the Nawab of Bengal however fell into arrears and was forced to abdicate in favour of his son in law, Mir Qasim.
3. Mir Qasim soon revolted as he was angry with the British for misusing the destakes (free duty passes).
4. However, having been defeated by the British, he fled to Awadh, where he formed a confederacy with Shuja-ud-daulah and ShahAlam.

1. There was a small dungeon room in the Fort William in Calcutta, where troops of the Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-daulah, held 146 British Prisoners of war for one night.
2. Next day morning, when the door was opened 123 of the prisoners were found dead because of suffocation.

1) The dual government was abolished and the company took over the direct responsibility for the collection of revenue as well as the administration of justice.
2) consequently a Diwani Adalat and Faujdari Adalat were established.
3) By the regulating Act pf 1773, a supreme court was set up in Calcutta.
4) On the model of the supreme court of calcutta, a supreme court was established in Madras in 1801 and in Bombay in 1823.
5) A Indian Law commission was established to compile the laws.
6) According to the indian high courts Act, 1861, three high courts were set up in calcutta, Bombay and Madras in place of the old supreme courts.

1) Greater naval power
2) Development of textile
3) Scientific division of labour 
4) Economic prosperity and skillful diplomacy of the british 
5) Feelings of insecurity among the indian merchants
6) The inequality and ignorance of the indian kings

1. The French were the most serious rivals to the English in India.
2. The English were successful in establishing their supremacy in India
3. The following were the causes for the success of the English in India.
4. The English had good financial position.
5. The Government in England rendered adequate support to the English East India Company.
6. The English had good trade facilities.
7. The English had a strong and superior naval power.
8. There was good understanding between the English Generals.
9. Development of textile was another cause.
10. There was scientific division of labour.
11. Economic prosperity and skilful diplomacy of the British.
12. The Indian merchants felt insecure.
13. The inequality and ignorance of the Indian kings.

1. Lord Wellesley introduced the system of Subsidiary Alliance to bring the princely states under the control of the British
2. It was the most effective instrument for the expansion of the British territory and political influence in India.
3. The princely state was called the protected state and the British came to be referred as the paramount power
4. It was the duty of the British to safeguard the state from external aggression and to help its ruler in maintaining internal peace.
Main features:
1. An Indian ruler entering into this alliance with the British had to dissolve his own armed forces and accept British Forces.
2. A British Resident would stay in his capital. "Towards the maintenance charges of the army, he should make annual payments or cede some territory permanently to the Company. All the non- English European officials should be turned out of his state.
3. The native ruler should deal with foreign states only through the English Company.
4. The British would undertake to defend the state from internal trouble as well as external attack.
Merits for the British:
1. The British Company maintained a large army at the expense of the Indian rulers, All Frenehmen in the service of native rulers were dismissed, and the danger of French revival was completely eliminated.
2. The British Company began to control the foreign policy of the Princely States. Wellesley's diplomacy made the British the paramount power in India.
3. He transformed the British Empire in India into the British empire of India.

1. Lord Dalhousie was one of the chief architects of the British Empire in India. He was an imperialist. He adopted a new policy known as Doctrine of Lapse to extend British Empire
2. He made use of this precedent and declared in 1848 that if the native rulers adopted children without the prior permission of the Company, only the personal properties of the rulers would go to the adopted sons and the kingdom would go to the British paramount power.
3. It was bitterly opposed by the Indians. It was one of the root causes for the Great Revolt of 1857

1) Satara
2) Jaipur
3) Sambalpur
4) Baghat
5) Udaipur 
6) Jhansi and Nagpur

i) Pune 
ii) Baroda 
iii) Nagpur
iv) Indore 
v) Gwalior