The British policy of expansion made the princes of India very upset. The British East India Company was able to annex a number of kingdoms, and princes were denied the right to adoption, so if they died with no biological son to take the throne of their kingdom, the company would annex it (India Netzone). ... New technology and the British East India Company's economic policy threatened to destroy the economy of India, and the company used its political power in a way the made the princes and citizens of India very unhappy. ...

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., unworthy princes. ... The regime, the social mores obtaining, allowed the artisans to go directly to the prince, without fear, and complain to him. The slaves were commanded by one of their own, the infantry general, who was a pseudo- prince in that he might rule over a fief inhabited by freemen. ... As gérs , belonging to the same level as the prince, the latter found nothing dishonorable or debasing in pillaging their goods, however small they might be. ...

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Pre-Islamic India was made up primarily of small states ruled from capital cities. The princes paid officials in land, producing limited governments with few functions. Of the functions they did perform, maintaining trading contracts with other Southeast Asian countries was probably most important. ...

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From the age old archetypal story of the "Prince and the Pauper," to the formation of the Middle Class in the U.S. immediately after World War II, class is something that has existed and divided citizens of almost every nation. ...

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On the other hand, we have Buddhism that was founded in the fourth or fifth century B.C. in northern India by a man known traditionally as Siddhartha (meaning "he who has reached the goal-) Gautama, the son of a warrior prince. ...

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The princes sustained in power by the British since 1858, were determined to keep their states walled off from nationalism, railways and newspapers rarely penetrated the jungle-clad districts of the interior," (Metcalf 176). ...

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