This is how the Indian Government made Kings bow before them or leave for Pakistan

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The entire process of the creation of the of the Indian States can be followed back to the late 18th and mid 19th century, when the East India Company started obtaining huge tracts of area in India, by winning over local kingdoms on one guise or the other. The Subsidiary Alliance System of Wellesley had decreased numerous Indian States into a subordinate position versus the Company. What's more, many of them were brought under the British principle by Dalhousie through the Doctrine of Lapse (annexation policy purportedly devised by Lord Dalhousie).
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The rest, however stayed free in principle, were for all intents and purposes controlled by the British through their Residencies in these States. In any case, when the Revolt of 1857 made it clear that the Indian sovereigns weren’t very pleased with the way the Company went about this business, the British announced through the Queen's declaration that there would be no further additions and no impedance in the interior undertakings of any Indian State aside from on account of gross bungle and traitorousness to the British crown.

The political reconciliation of India set up a unified country, without precedent for hundreds of years, carving states out of royal kingdoms and frontier areas. In spite of allotment, the ensuing result was people from different geographies, monetary backgrounds; ethnic, etymological and religious foundations were grouped together. The procedure started in 1947, with the unification of 565 royal states through a basic arrangement of political battles, touchy strategy and military clashes. India changed after autonomy through political change and ethnic discontent.

From June to August 15, 1947, 562 of the 565 Indian-connected states signed the instrument of accession. Regardless of emotional political trades, Travancore, Jodhpur and Indore signed it on time. Vallabhbhai Patel was likewise eager to go up against other Indian pioneers for achieving the goal of a unified nation. The Privy Purse vow (taxed funds provided by the Duchy of Lancaster to meet some official expenditure incurred by the monarch, plus his or her private expenses) was hostile to many socialists, and Prime Minister Nehru made the vow to the Princes, by-passing the Cabinet. Patel depicted the vow as a key surety of the Government's aims, and it was appropriately consolidated into the Constitution. Patel safeguarded their entitlement to hold property and challenge decisions for open office, and today, particularly in states like Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, relatives of the once in the past regal families assume an imperative part in politics.

These three areas were a matter of conflict for the Indian government, this is how they played: