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UPSC 2021 GS-I · 10 marks · 150 words

Assess the main administrative issues and socio-cultural problems in the integration process of Indian Princely States.

What “Assess” demands

weigh the significance or extent of something and state how much it matters, with justification.

The characteristic failure: asserting importance without establishing degree.

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  • Mechanics: 550+ accessions, privy purses, services and legal-revenue unification into new units
  • Hard cases one line each: Junagadh plebiscite, Hyderabad's Operation Polo, Kashmir's conditional accession
  • Socio-cultural: dynastic loyalty to democratic citizenship, princely elites entering electoral politics, linguistic pressures pre-figuring 1956
  • The Patel-Menon method assessed: pressure, patience and the privy-purse bargain

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