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WBCS Main Examination 2023 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 11 of 200

Q11
History of IndiaAdvent of Europeans & British Expansion
Who was the first Indian ruler to accept the Subsidiary Alliance?
  1. a.The Nawab of Bengal
  2. b.The Nizam of Hyderabad
  3. c.The Nawab of Awadh
  4. d.Peshwa Balaji Baji Rao

Answer: (B) The Nizam of Hyderabad

The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first to sign Lord Wellesley's Subsidiary Alliance, in 1798. The Nawab of Awadh followed in 1801 and the Peshwa (Baji Rao II, not Balaji Baji Rao) in 1802 by the Treaty of Bassein.

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