Interrelationship Between the Princely States of Bihar and The Government

Abstract

With the decline of the Mughal Empire in the eighteenth century, many states were established. After the Battle of Plassey in 1757, the expansion of the British Empire started and many changes took place in the political map of India. The way the British encroached on India and the policies adopted to establish colonial power, the rule of the Indian kings-maharajas remained on the 25th part of this subcontinent. These princely states were of all types, small and big. One common thing in the princely states was that they all believed in the sovereignty of the British rule. Autocratic autocratic rule dominated most of the princely states. Rule of law and civil rights were a distant thing for these princely states, due to these reasons most of the princely states were socially, economically, politically and educationally more backward than British India.