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Blog: Coins of the Princely States
Blog Overview: Pre-Independence coins in the areas not administered by the British Empire.
There were as many as 568 states in India before independence. A Princely State (also called Native State or Indian State) was a nominally sovereign entity of British rule in India that was not directly administered by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule such as suzerainty or paramountcy.