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First paragraph:
Perhaps few topics are more invidious in colonial legal history than the definition of “paramountcy” in British India. Alternatively cast as a feudal compact with subordinate native princely states, a noninterventionist policy supportive of semi-sovereignty, and a doctrine invented to justify colonial “earth hunger,”1 the concept elicited significant debate in the mid-Victorian era. But epistemological and practical issues bedeviled any comprehensive understanding of the term.Read more on Cambridge Core.
