Question

What is doctorine of lapse accourding to 8th class?

Answer 1

the final wave of annexations occurred under Lord Dalhousie who was the governor general from 1848 to 1858 . according to the doctrine,any Indian princely state under the suzerainty of the British east India company,as a vassal state under the British subsidiary system ,would have its princely status abolished if the ruler was either " manifestly incompetent or died without a male heir " . the latter supplanted the long established right of an Indian sovereign without an heir to choose a successor .