Abstract
In 1947, at the time of partition of India, Dewas state was merged in
Madhya Perdish, a central province of India. However, it remained a
victim of colonial policies during the British Raj. The English appeared
on the scene of Dewas state on December 12, 1818, when a treaty was
signed between the ruler of Dewas and the East India Company and
Dewas State was taken into the possession of East India Company. In
fact it was a treaty between the subjugators and subjugated; the British
colonizers controlled the Indian sources and resources and the Indians
are treated as “half citizens” During the colonial period, the British
Empire had adopted a policy of “Direct and Indirect Rule” in the
states of the colonized India. The colonizers brought the rajahas and
maharajahs and their states in their control through various tactics and
with the help of local European agents. In this way an entire stratum of
the traditional ruling class in India was drawn into the colonial
project. Some of these states where the policy of indirect rule had been
adopted were Gwaialr, Bhopal, Baroda, Udiapur, Indore, Kolhapur,
Poonah, Nagpur, Simla and Dewas. In this research paper the colonial
policy of the British Raj in the state of Dewashas been discussed.
Gulzar Ahmad, Nadia Bashir. (2017) THE COLONIAL POLICY OF THE BRITISH RAJ IN INDIAN PRINCELY STATES: A CASE STUDY OF DEWAS STATE, Pakistan , Volume 53, Issue 1.
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