The real intention of the British to include the princely states in the Federal Union proposed by the India Act of 1935 was to
- Aexercise more and direct political and administrative control over the princely states
- Binvolve the princes actively in the administration of the colony
- Cfinally effect the complete political and administrative take-over of all the princely states by the British
- Duse the princes to counter-balance the anti-imperialist doctrines of the nationalist leadersCorrect
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