Question
What were the conditions laid in Subsidiary Alliance?

Answer

Lord Wellesley signed Subsidiary Alliance with many Indian rulers in 1798.
Its conditions were :
  1. Indian rulers should keep the British army in their Court.
  2. They have to pay the company towards the maintenance of these forces in cash or a part of their territory of equivalent amount of revenue.
  3. Without the intervention of the British, they would not have any alliance or declare war with any power.
  4. They should keep the British resident in their court.

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