Subordinate Isolation (in Hindi)

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Abhishek Srivastava

End of the French menace as a result of Napoleon’s defeat in the Peninsular War in 1813, the Industrialization of England and redress of financial crisis caused by the wars of Lord Wellesley enabled the Company to inaugurate a new policy towards the Indian states under Lord Hastings in 1813. Indian states were supposed to act in subordinate cooperation with the British government and acknowledge its supremacy. This policy of subordinate isolation had two defects. Firstly, the rulers ceased to care for the good of their people as they got a guarantee of protection from the Company along with an assurance that it would not interfere with their internal affairs. Consequently the internal administration of the native states deteriorated miserably. Secondly, the Company, as paramount power, could not interfere in the internal affairs of a state. So to end the misrule it had to annex the state. This resulted in a crash programme of annexations—both just and unjust.