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a. 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.
b. subsidiary alliance, in South Asian history, describes a tributary alliance between a Native state and either French India, or later the British East India Company. ... In a Subsidiary Alliance, princely rulers were not allowed to make any negotiations and treaty with any other ruler.
a) Doctrine of lapse
The term 'Doctrine of Lapse' means those Indian states which have lost their ruling rights having no next ruler to govern the state in this case the Indian kingdom was come under the British Administrative and were captured by the Britishers.
=>This policy was introduced by the British -general Dalhousie.
=>The main reason to implement this policy was that to seize the power of Indian States and make it British dominion State.
Some of the states taken away by Dalhousie through his policy of 'Doctrine of Lapse ' were:
The states of satara
- Sambhalpur
- Jaipur
- Nagpur
- Udaipur
- Jhansi
b) Subsidiary alliance
Subsidiary Alliance was basically a treaty (agreement) between the British East India Company and the Indian princely states Who had lost their states.
=>It was planned by lord Wellesley.
=>The Indian rulers who had agreed with this alliance have to accept British forces in his territory.
=>The Britishers took maintenance cost if they are unable to pay then some portion of their territory were come under the British territory.