The large princely states , Hyderabad , Mysore , Travancore , and Kashmir , as well as the smaller ones of Rajputana , did not join Becoming_a_member the rebellion , serving Assistance the British , in the Governor-General Lord Canning 's words , as `` breakwaters in a storm . ''

The battle Hostile_encounter honour of Mysore commemorates the action of native units of the British East India Company in the Third Anglo-Mysore War of 1789–92 .