Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Answer

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)