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Study the following cartoon carefully and answer the questions that follow:

(i) Identify and name the leader shown on the right in the cartoon.

(ii) What type of relationship does the cartoon indicate between the people and the ruler?

(iii) In your opinion, how successful was the approach adopted by the leader on the right to solve the issue of Princely States?

Answer:

(i) Sardar Patel, the Home Minister at that time is shown in the cartoon.

(ii) The state is princely state and ruler of state is Monarch the people of princely states were suppressed by the ruler very badly.

(iii) The government approach was consolidation and integration of the territorial boundaries of the nation and it had assumed supreme significance. Sardar Patel played a historic role in negotiating with the rulers of princely states, offering them privy purses and bringing them into the Indian Union.