The real intention of the British to include the princely states in the Federal Union proposed by the India Act of 1935 was to:

• A. exercise more and direct political and administrative control over the princely staes
• B. involve the princes actively in the administration of the colony
• C. finally effect the complete political and administrative take-over of all the princely states by the British
• D. use the princes to counter -balance the ant-imperialist doctrines of the nationalist leaders