Question

Fill in the blanks 1. ……………………… policy was deviced by Lord Dalhousie. 2. Satara was annexed in the year ……………………… under the ……………………… policy. 3. ……………………… was the reason behind the Awadh Annexation. 4. ……………………… the 1st governor-general introduced several administrative reforms in sphere of justice. 5. Under the Regulating Act of ……………………… a new Supreme Court was established. 6. In 1600, the East India Company acquired the royal charter from ……………………… the 7. Vasco da-Gama discovered the sea route to India in ……………………… .​

Answer 1

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1]Lord Dalhousie was the Governor General of India from 1848-56. He devised the policy of Doctrine pf Lapse. According to the Doctrine of Lapse introduced by Lord Dalhousie, if any Indian ruler died without leaving a male heir, his kingdom passed over to the British.

2]The company took over the princely states of Satara (1848), Jaitpur and Sambalpur(1849), Bhagat (1850), Udaipur (Chhattisgarh) (1852), Jhansi (1853), Nagpur (1854), Tore and Arcot (1855) under the terms of the doctrine of lapse. Oudh (1856) is widely believed to have been annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse.

3]The Nawab of Awadh was forced to give over half of his territory to the Company in 1801, as he failed to pay for the “subsidiary forces”. Later, in 1858, the state of Awadh was annexed by the British on the charges of mismanagement of the state.

4]Warren Hastings, the first Governor-General, introduced several administrative reforms, notably in the sphere of justice. From 1772 a new system of justice was established. Each district was to have two courts – a criminal court (faujdari adalat ) and a civil court (diwani adalat).

5]The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Calcutta (Kolkata), was founded in 1774 by the Regulating Act of 1773. It replaced the Mayor's Court of Calcutta and was British India's highest court from 1774 until 1862, when the High Court of Calcutta was established by the Indian High Courts Act 1861.

6]Queen Elizabeth I

7]Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who reached India by sea on May 17, 1498. His fleet reached Kappakadavu near Calicut in the current Indian state of Kerala.

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