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 subsidiary alliances created Creating the princely states of the Hindu maharajas and the Muslim nawabs .

punjab , north-west frontier province , and kashmir were annexed Forming_relationships after the second anglo-sikh war in 1849 ; however , kashmir was immediately sold Commerce_sell under the 1846 treaty of amritsar to the dogra dynasty of jammu and thereby became Becoming a princely state .

at the conclusion Process_end of this third anglo-maratha war Military_operation , the holkars lost Earnings_and_losses much of their territory to the british and were incorporated Cause_to_amalgamate into the british raj as a princely state of the central india agency .

After the last remaining resistance was put down and the former princely titles were abolished Removing .