Question

B. Match the following, 1. Sutlej riverſe 2. Wajid Ali Shah 3. Lord Dalhousie 4. Gulab Singh 5. Nana Saheb la (a) Doctrine of Lapse (b) Purchase of Kashmir (c) Deprivation of pension (d) The last Nawab of Awadh (e) Border between British and Sikh territories​

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One notable British technique was called the doctrine of lapse, first perpetrated by Lord Dalhousie in the late 1840s. It involved the British prohibiting a Hindu ruler without a natural heir from adopting a successor and, after the ruler died or abdicated, annexing his land.