Protected Princes Of India

Author:William Lee-Warner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: India, history
Published: 1894-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

on the Bights of Nations in Time of Peace: " The Native states of India are instances of protected, dependent states, maintaining the most varied relations with the British Government under compacts with the East India Company. All these states acknowledge the supremacy of the British Government, and some of them admit its right to interfere in their internal affairs, insomuch as the East India Company had become virtually sovereign over them. None of these states hold any political intercourse with one another or with foreign powers." inter § 98. The consequences of depriving the rulers of

oWLm-* 1 I&dian principalities of those powers of negotiation tions of and legation which form an essential part of a full the states, complement of sovereign attributes, must now be abroad and considered. It is convenient to deal first with their within relations to foreign nations or independent states, jurisdic- and afterwards with their relations to other Indian tions - states as incapable as themselves of entering into relations with external powers or states. Inasmuch as to every duty belongs a corresponding right", the duty of subordination in all international concerns, owed by the protected states to the British Government, can be examined in the light which that Government owes to its allies in the matters of protection abroad, passports, and the exercise of right of legation. The protected princes of India enjoy the benefits secured, and must accept the liabilities incurred by the diplomatic action of the Crown. The fourth section of the Statute 39 and 40 Vic. cap. xlvi. puts the matter in these terms: " Whereas by certain Orders of Her Majesty in Council made by virtue of an Act made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's Reign, chapter xciv., which Orders are dated

respectively August 9th 1866, and November 4th 1867, it is ordered that the provisions of such Orders relating to British subjects shall extend and apply to all subjects of Her Majesty whether by Birth or Naturalisation, and also to all persons enjoying Her Majesty's protection in the several dominions mentioned in such Orders respectively: it is hereby declared and enacted that, for the purposes of the said Orders in Council, or of any Orders in Council which Her Majesty may hereafter think fit to make by virtue of the said Act of the sixth and seventh years of Her Majesty's Beign, chapter xciv., all subjects of the several princes and states in India in alliance with Her Majesty, residing and being in the several dominions comprised in such Orders respectively, are and shall be deemed to be persons enjoying Her Majesty's Protection therein." The terms of this section deserve detailed consideration. It is explained that the persons now admitted to Her Majesty's protection in foreign parts are " subjects of the several princes and states in India," and the only qualification required for admission to British protection is residence or being in the foreign parts. It is

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