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examine the policies of the Lord Dalhousie in the annexation of Indian states. how far is annexation policies were responsible for the great uprising?​

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Answered by amalprajish1546
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Last wave of annexations took place under Lord Dalhousie who was the governor general from 1496. He devised a policy that came to be known as Doctrine of lapse. According to this lapse, if a king died without a male heir, his kingdom would become the part of the company’s territory.

Many kingdoms was simply annexed by applying this doctrine

Answered by afrafarveenhajmohame
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Lord Dalhousie who was a Governor General devised  a policy came to be known as the “ doctrine of lapse”


the doctrine declared that if an Indian ruler died without a male heir his kingdom would be “lapse”that is become a part of the company’s territory


the kingdoms which were annexed through this policy were

Satara (1848)

Sambalpur(1950)

Udaipur (1952)

Nagpur (1953)

Jahansi(1954)

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