Ministry of States, Government of India, White Paper on Indian States (1950… (1950)
“ So effective was the enforcement of the Pax Britannica, and so abrupt its effect that, guarded against the normal evolutionary and revolutionary processes, the States assumed in the first quarter of the 19th century the "appearance of a sea suddenly petrified in a condition of stormy unrest and disquietude". Firmly set under the external pressure of a resourceful foreign power, the monarchical system in India, which was as old as India's history itself, shifted from its traditional moral plane and lost its own innate strength. ”
