aWrite a short note of 'Doctrin of lapse'?
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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.
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From 1848 to 1856, Lord Dalhousie was the Governor General of India. He declared that if in any possible ways if the Indian ruler dies without having any legal heir to the throne, the Company will take over that territory. In other words, his kingdom would ‘lapse’. This policy came to be known as the ‘Doctrine of Lapse’. Through this policy they annexed – Satara, Sambalpur, Udaipur, Nagpur, Awadh and Jhansi.
With this policy, they tried to misguide the people by convincing them that they were helping the people by protecting them from staying under the misgovernment of the Nawabs. So it was they're ‘obliged by duty’ that they introduced this policy.
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