I was talking to a friend (well not a friend, someone) and they said incest is allowed in India :S
is this true?
is this true?
As this Act was also intended to provide for an extension of the royal charter granted to the East India Company, it is also called the Charter Act of 1833. ... It ended the activities of the British East India Company as a commercial body and it became a purely administrative body.
Long title: An Act for effecting an Arrangement ...
Royal assent: 28 August 1833
Repealed by: Government of India Act 1915
The Indian Independence Act was passed in 1947. The act created two new independent dominions; India and Pakistan. The Act repealed the use of 'Emperor of India' as a title for the British Crown and ended all existing treaties with the princely states.
A princely state, also called native state, feudatory state or Indian state was a vassal state under a local or indigenous or regional ruler in a
565 princely states
At the time of the British withdrawal, 565 princely states were officially recognised in the Indian subcontinent, apart from thousands of zamindari estates and jagirs. In 1947, princely states covered 40% of the area of pre-independence India and constituted 23% of its population.
A princely state, also called native state (legally, under the British) or Indian state (for those states on the subcontinent), was a nominally sovereign monarchy under a local or regional ruler in a subsidiary alliance with a greater power. Though the history of the princely states of the subcontinent dates from at least the classical period of Indian history, the predominant usage of the term princely state specifically refers to a semi-sovereign principality on the Indian subcontinent during the British Raj that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by a local ruler under a form of indirect rule.
Before the Partition of India in 1947, multiple Rajput and non-Rajput Princely States existed in India which were not part of British India. These were the parts of the Indian subcontinent which had not been conquered or annexed by the British but were subject to subsidiary alliances.
In principle, the princely states had internal autonomy, while by treaty the British Crown had suzerainty and was responsible for the states' external affairs. In practice, while the states were indeed ruled by potentates with a variety of titles, such as Chhatrapati, Maharaja, Raja, Raje, Deshmukh, Nawab, Baig, Khan, Nizam,Mirza or specially Jam for Jadeja/Samma.