INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Only 21 had actual state governments, and only four were large (Hyderabad State, Mysore State, Jammu and Kashmir State, and Baroda State). They acceded to one of the two new independent nations between 1947 and 1949.

Detailed explanation-2: -The only princely states which signed neither Covenants of Merger nor Merger Agreements were Kashmir, Mysore and Hyderabad.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some princely states like Hyderabad, Junagad, Jammu and Kashmir did not agree to join the Indian Union after Independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -Before the Partition of India in 1947, about 584 princely states, also called “native states”, existed in India, which were not fully and formally part of British India, Upon Independence, they were given the choice of either joining India or Pakistan or remaining independent.