describe the doctrine of lapse?
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The doctrine of lapse was an annexation policy applied by the British East India Company in India until 1859.
The latter supplanted the long-established right of an Indian sovereign without an heir to choose a successor.
In addition, the British decided whether potential rulers were competent enough.
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Doctrine of lapse, in Indian history, formula devised by Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India (1848–56), to deal with questions of succession to Hindu Indian states. It was a corollary to the doctrine of paramountcy, by which Great Britain, as the ruling power of the Indian subcontinent, claimed the superintendence of the subordinate Indian states and so also the regulation of their succession.
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