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‘It is sometimes asked by Ruling Chiefs, as well as by the public in India and in Europe what our policy towards Native States is. I can tell you that the basis of the policy was laid in Queen Victoria’s Proclamation of 1858 and repeated in the Coronation message of His Majesty the King Emperor.’

  • UPSC 1986
  • Indian Response to British Rule

This claim of unbroken continuity in British policy toward the Native States rests on the Queen's Proclamation of 1858, issued after the Revolt of 1857.

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