‘The system of Subsidiary Alliance was meant to create dependable and dependent Indian rulers’. Justify

Subsidiary alliance means that a king cannot own his own army and he had to pay rent to britishers to get army for safety which made the kings dependable.

manifest functions are the recognized and intended consequences of any social pattern, while latent functions are those unrecognized and unintended consequences. to analyze the manifest functions of any social institution, we have to study its contribution to the continuation of a group, community, or society.