UPSC NDA II 2015 General Ability Solved Paper

A Resident, or in frill Resident Minister, is a government official required to take up permanent residence in another country. Instead of being a representative to a single ruler, a Resident could be posted to more than one native state, or to a grouping of states which the European power decided for its convenience. This could create an artificial geographical unit, as in Residency X in some parts of the British Indian Empire