| | Pension - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | This is a type sui generis as it is not awarded on grounds of justice, contract or socio-economic merits, but as a political decision, in order to take a politically significant person (often deemed a potential political danger) out of he loop by paying him off, regardless of seniority. |
| | In British colonial history, the term political pensioner applies thus to the following former ruling houses of princely states who saw their feudal territories annexed by the HEIC before it transfered power in British India to the crown in 1858. |
| | Although politically important members could be relocated or exiled, they retained throughout the Raj a hereditary right to their former princely rank and titles (in several cases including a gun salute) as well as a monetary "political pension" as a private purse. |
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