European arrival and Company expansion
Expansion, paramountcy and frontier policy
Practise 2 PYQsConcepts to cover
- Wellesley's subsidiary alliance: British force at the ally's expense, no other Europeans, no independent foreign relations, a Resident
- Dalhousie's doctrine of lapse and the states it took: Satara, Jaitpur, Sambalpur, Udaipur, Jhansi, Nagpur
- Awadh annexed on the plea of misgovernment; Summary Settlement 1856 treated taluqdars as outsiders and settled with villages
- Conquest of Sindh 1843 under Ellenborough; two Anglo-Sikh wars and Punjab annexed 1849
- The Resident system, Company control of princely succession and the vocabulary of paramountcy before 1858
- British Afghan frontier policy: Auckland forward policy, Lawrence masterly inactivity, Lytton proud reserve and Curzon
- Ring-fence and buffer-state policy: Company frontier security, protected neighbours and the transition to paramountcy
- British relations with Nepal, Burma and Tibet: wars, frontier treaties, commercial and strategic interests