Princely example sentences

The problems of the refugees and of the princely states had to be addressed immediately.It therefore instructed its agents posted in the princely states to confiscate all opium and destroy the crops.It was being produced in Central India and Rajasthan, within princely states that were not under British control.The British had left it to the rulers of the princely states to decide whether they wanted to merge with India or with Pakistan or remain independent.During the middle of the nineteenth century, Italy was divided into seven states, of which only one, Sardinia-Piedmont, was ruled by an Italian princely house.Then there was the problem of the princely states, almost 500 of them, each ruled by a maharaja or a nawab, each of whom had to be persuaded to join the new nation.The merger of these princely states was a difficult and uncertain task.Before 1947, there were two types of states in India – the provinces and the Princely states.Princely states were ruled by local, hereditary rulers, who acknowledged sovereignity in return for local autonomy.