Question

Answer the following questions. 1. What made it possible for the British turn rulers from traders? 2.What was the Doctrine of Lapse?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The British had initially come to India in search of new markets for their goods and to conduct profitable trade in spices, cotton and silk. However, the Portuguese, French and Dutch were also in the fray. ... Finally, through either annexation or vassalship, the British became the political rulers of India.

2. The doctrine of lapse was a policy of annexation initiated by the East India Company in the Indian subcontinent about the princely states, and applied until 1859, two years after Company rule was succeeded by the British Raj.

Answer 2

1.Ans:

The British had initially come to India in search of new markets for their goods and to conduct profitable trade in spices, cotton and silk. However, the Portuguese, French and Dutch were also in the fray. ... Finally, through either annexation or vassalship, the British became the political rulers of India.

2.Ans:

The doctrine of lapse was a policy of annexation initiated by the East India Company in the Indian subcontinent about the princely states, and applied until 1859, two years after Company rule was succeeded by the British Raj