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The Princely States were areas or regions under the rule of a ruler who was in a subsidiary alliance with the British Raj.
A ruler with a subordinate alliance with the British Raj ruled the Princely states, territories, or districts. It is the region that is not directly ruled by the British but rather by a local monarch who was subject to certain indirect rules. There were 565 princely states on the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the year India gained independence from the British. There were Provinces of India, which served as divisions of British rule in India during the British Raj, in addition to the princely states. The Nizams' capital cities of Hyderabad, Jammu, and Kashmir were India's two most significant princely realms.

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