In the aftermath, all power was transferred from the East India Company to the British Crown, which began to administer most of India as a number of provinces ; the John Company's lands were controlled directly, while it had considerable indirect influence over the rest of India, which consisted of the Princely states ruled by local royal families.

During the drafting of the Indian constitution, many Indian leaders ( except Nehru ) of that time were in favour of allowing each Princely state or Covenanting State to be independent as a federal state along the lines suggested originally by the Government of India act ( 1935 ).

While the Bamar heartland was directly administered ( first as a part of India and then, from 1937, as British Burma ), ethnic regions outside the heartland were allowed some measure of self-rule along the lines of the Princely States of India.

In the British empire the Indian Princely States were technically independent ( and were technically given their separate independence in 1947, although the Nizam of Hyderabad did not retain his independence from India ).

Princely families, which were later mentioned in Movses Kaghankatvatsi ’ s “ History …” were included in the Table of Ranks called “ Gahnamak ” ( direct translation: “ List of Thrones ,” Arm.

Princely families of Caucasian Albania were also included in the Table of Armies called “ Zoranamak ” ( Arm.

There were several different political arrangements in existence: Provinces were ruled directly and the Princely States with varying legal arrangements, like paramountcy.

The Deccan territories were thus the last survivors of the Mughal empire, along with the Princely state of Awadh ( in North India ).

Only this group in the three valleys of Birir, Bumburet and Rumbur escaped conversion, because they were located east of the Durand line in the Princely State of Chitral.

He was awarded his the status of " Prince " by the British government's representatives in India and became the only religious or community leader in British India granted a personal gun salute ; all other salute dynasties were either rulers of Princely States, or Political Pensioners holding ancestral princely titles in states abolished by the British.

The concept of the state regalia as entirely hereditary was solidified in law when James I decreed that named ' Roiall and Princely Ornaments and Jewells ' were ' to be indyvidually and inseparably for ever hereafter annexed to the Kingdome of this Realme '.

British Residents were posted in various Princely states — in major states or groups of states — in the days of British India.

On July 30, 2000, at the age of 72, Rajkumar, his son-in-law Govindaraju, and two others were abducted from the actor's palatial house at Gajanur ( prior to 1947, it was in Princely State of Mysore now in Erode district of Tamil Nadu ) by Veerappan.

Rulers of Indian Princely States were also eligible for appointment.

British officials and soldiers were eligible for appointment, as were rulers of Indian Princely States.

The British Crown's suzerainty over 175 Princely States, generally the largest and most important, was exercised in the name of the British Crown by the central government of British India under the Viceroy ; the remaining, approximately four hundred, states were influenced by Agents answerable to the provincial governments of British India under a Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, or Chief Commissioner.

Princely rulers were entitled to be saluted by the firing of an odd number of guns between three and 21, with a greater number of guns indicating greater prestige.

Prior to establishment of Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir by the Dogra rulers in the mid-nineteenth century, the Gilgit region had been ruled by princes who were styled Raas.

After formation of the Gilgit Agency by the British in 1877, these territories, including the Wazarats of Gilgit and Ladakh, were administered directly by the British, though the Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir retained sovereignty.

On archaeological plan these transformations are visible through the new materials ( new types of pottery, jewelry and other handcraft products ), spiritual ( new way of burial: cremation instead of inhumation, accepting the cults of the Greek gods ) and other characteristics, which at the beginning were accepted as prestige by the most elite social circles, and afterwards by the rest of the people, that best can be seen from so called ‘ Princely Crypts ’ of which most famous is the one from Tetovo where the well known statuette of the Maenad was found.

In 1896 the Princely House of Schwarzburg, with the Sondershausen branch numbering two elderly childless princes and Rudolstadt just one childless prince, recognised Prince Sizzo von Leutenberg, morganatic son of Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, as a Prince of Schwarzburg and heir to the two principalities.

India under the British Raj ( the " Indian Empire ") consisted of two types of territory: British India and the Native States or Princely states.

Both Aleksandr Mikhailovich, and Mikhail Aleksandrovich briefly held the Grand Princely office ( in 1326-1327 and 1371-1372 respectively ) but Mikhail's failure to defeat Yury of Moscow, followed by Aleksandr's role ( real or perceived ) in the Tver Uprising of 1327, led the Tver branch to lose the favor of the Khans, and the Danilovich-the Muscovite princes, held the title for all but two years after 1317.

It was created on 1 July 1949 by the merger of two former Princely States, the kingdoms of Travancore and Cochin with Trivandrum as the capital.

When Indian Independence came into view Travancore and other Princely States were given two options of either staying independent or merging with the dominions of India or Pakistan.

But as the drafting of the constitution progressed and the idea of forming a republic took concrete shape ( due to the efforts of Nehru ), it was decided that all the Princely states / Covenanting States would merge with the Indian republic.

Princely Mughal Empire | Mughal sabre with jewelled scabbard

Trade with China, especially in the illegal opium, grew, and so did the firm of Jardine, Matheson and Co, which was already known as the Princely Hong for being the largest British trading firm in East Asia.

The Old Princely Court ( Curtea Veche ) was built by Mircea Ciobanul, and under subsequent rulers, Bucharest was established as the summer residence of the court, competing with Târgoviște for the status of capital after an increase in the importance of southern Muntenia brought about by the demands of the suzerain power, the Ottoman Empire.

His portrait is included with the 16-sheet series of Princely Persons on Horseback by Johann Elias Ridinger.

Though in a moment of pique, he had once quipped that he would sell the country to Bill Gates and rename it Microsoft, he did seriously threaten to move to Austria with the Princely Family.

Thenceforth, the Viceroy was appointed by the British Sovereign to oversee the administration of the British Raj and to conduct relations with the quasi-independent Princely States of India.

Because of their close relationship to the Grand Ducal House of Hesse, the Battenbergs came into close contact with various Royal and Princely families of Europe, including the British Royal House.

In 1694 Constantin Brâncoveanu, ruler of Wallachia, had founded the Princely Academy of Saint Sava in Bucharest with lectures delivered in Greek.

The arms are a history of the Princely House, and show the many different areas of Europe with which Liechtenstein has been involved, either by conquest or by marriage.

The Princely hat crowns a purple cloak with ermine lining behind the large coat-of-arms.

The whole achievement ( entire rendering with supporters ) is surrounded by the Princely cloak, or mantle, Purpure and lined Ermine and ensigned with the Princely hat.

The former Oberamt of the Princely Electorate ( Hochstift ) of Würzburg was, after Secularization, in Bavaria ’ s favour, passed in 1805 to Archduke Ferdinand of Tuscany to form the Grand Duchy of Würzburg, and passed with this to Bavaria.

The Princely State of Indore was merged with the Union of India on 16 June 1948 )

* Michael C. Paul, " The Iaroslavichi and the Novgorodian Veche: A Case Study on Princely Relations with the Veche ," Russian History ( 2004 ).

Gilgit and Baltistan, together with their neighbours Hunza, Nagar and Ladakh, became vassals of the Princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, but maintained considerable autonomy.