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‘The British endeavoured as far as possible to live within a Ring-Fence and beyond that they avoided intercourse with the chiefs.’

  • UPSC 1987
  • Indian Response to British Rule

The Ring-Fence policy (1765–1813) describes the East India Company's early, cautious approach to Indian powers once it acquired the Diwani of Bengal in 1765, most closely associated with Warren Hastings.

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