The Indian Political Department, formerly part of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India, was a government department in British India.[1] The department looked after the diplomatic and "political" relations with the subsidiary states of the British Empire in India, and some states overseas. The nature of its work was indirect rule.[2] The department was disbanded at the time of Indian independence and replaced by a newly formed States Department in the Government of India.
- ^ Coen, The Indian Political Service 1971, pp. 4, 55
- ^ Coen, The Indian Political Service (1971), p. 4.