KAVITA SARASWATHI DATLA, The Origins of Indirect Rule in India: Hyderabad and the British Imperial Order, Law and History Review, Vol. 33, No. 2 (May 2015), pp. 321-350 ...

Second, precolonial centralization was a crucial prerequisite for indirect rule. Local administrative data from eight British colonies show that British colonizers employed less administrative effort ...

As a principle of administration, indirect rule is essentially a system of local government, in theory functioning through local native tribal institutions. Admirable as this principle may be in ...

British rule in the country utilized a blend of direct and indirect governance methods, encompassing various administrative, economic, and social strategies.

Actually, the state was under the control of these people. Due to this, the British were not able to capture it.