Who resisted the policy of "paramountcy" …

The doctrine of paramountcy is the legal principle that reconciles contradicting or conflicting laws in a federalist state, where both the central government, and the provincial or state governments, have the power to create laws in relation to the same matters. The British East India Company pursued an aggressive policy of territorial expansion from the early eighteenth century. Lord Hastings was the first Governor-General of India from 1813. Under Lord Hasting, a new policy of "paramountcy" was introduced in India. The claim of paramountcy was a new policy of annexation introduced by the first Governor-General of India, Lord Hastings. According, to this policy, the British declared its authority as paramount or supreme than the Indian states and has the power to annex Indian kingdoms for its own interests.