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What was the privy purse?

AA pension fund for retired MPs
BHereditary grant to former princes
CA tax on jewellery of princes
DThe royal treasury in Delhi
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Hereditary grant to former princes
1. Princes got a grant when they merged their States. 2. This hereditary allowance was the privy purse. 3. It was abolished after the 1971 victory. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 5, Challenges to and Restoration of the Congress System._
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