<Li> Indian rulers have to maintain British troops in his state . </Li> <P> Indian rulers under British protection surrendered the control of their foreign affairs to the British . Most subordinate disbanded their native armies and instead maintained British troops within their states to protect them from attack, but that became increasingly unlikely in most parts of India as British power grew . </P> <P> The Nawab of Awadh was the first to enter into such an alliance after the Battle of Buxar in 1764 . Tipu Sultan of the Kingdom of Mysore refused to do so, but after the British victory in the Fourth Anglo - Mysore War, Mysore was forced to become a subsidiary state . The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first to accept a well - framed subsidiary alliance . After the Third Anglo - Maratha War, Maratha ruler Baji Rao II also accepted a subsidiary alliance . </P> <P> Other states Tanjore (1799), Avadh (1801), Peshwa (1802), Bhonsle (1803), and Scindhiya (1804) accepted this alliance . </P>

When was the subsidiary alliance imposed on awadh