Privy purse was related to whom in the past independence period?

Question

Privy purse was related to whom in the past independence period?

Options

a. Landlords

b. Former kings

c. industrialists

d. India planters

Answer

b

Solution-

In India, a privy purse was a payment method to the ruling families of erstwhile princely states as a part of their agreements to first integrate with India in 1947 after the independence of India, and later to merge their states in 1948 whereby they lost all ruling rights.