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After the Sepoy Rebellion, India was governed directly from England through the dedicated team: the India Office, going by the Secretary of State for India. The place was split into "British India", which came up under direct English control, and the Princely State governments. The second option were the territories and sovereignties of varied powerful tradition market leaders, remnants of the old system of guideline, who were allowed, under various weights of English superintendentship, to keep their positions and continue their guideline. British India in the end covered some 54 percent of the landmass and 77 percent of the populace. By the time the British started to contemplate a withdrawal from India, 565 princely claims were officially recognized, in addition to a large number of zamindaris and jagirs, that have been in effect feudal estates. The stature of every Princely State was described by the number of guns terminated in salute after a ceremonial occasion honoring one or other of the princes. These ranged from nine-gun to 21-gun salutes and, in a great number of cases, no salute in any way. The Princely State governments were reasonably consistently spread between ancient Muslim and Hindu dynasties, but bearing in mind the minority position of Muslims in India, Muslims were disproportionately displayed. This tended to grant Muslims an similarly disproportionate talk about of what vitality was devolved to local leaderships, and it situated powerful Muslim market leaders to exert a similarly unequal influence on British insurance plan. Kashmir: THE ANNALS and Legacy of the Indian Subcontinent's Most Disputed Territory chronicles the exceptional history of the area and the influence it has had over the ages.
