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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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
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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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