Civil Services Prep

Prelims MCQ · Modern History and the Freedom Struggle

Consider the following features:

  • The proportion of European soldiers was increased.
  • Recruitment increasingly favoured selected “martial races”.
  • Units were organised on caste, community or regional lines.
  • The army was deliberately separated from civilian society.

These measures were guided principally by which policy?

  1. Subsidiary Alliance
  2. Division and counterpoise
  3. Doctrine of Lapse
  4. Masterly inactivity
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