Question

Which of the following is NOT a policy pursued by British company to take over Indian territories?
Subsidiary alliance
Paramountacy
Doctrine of lapse
Doctrine of shock​

Answer 1

Answer:

Doctrine of shock​

Explanation:

Subsidiary alliance:- Subsidiary Alliance was basically a treaty between the British East India Company and the Indian princely states, by virtue of which the Indian kingdoms lost their sovereignty to the English. It was framed by Lord Wellesley, the Governor-General of India from 1798 to 1805.

Paramountcy:- Under Lord Hastings, the East India Company pursued territorial expansion and policy of 'paramountcy'   to state that British power was more than any Indian state. Under this claim, they justified their annexation of other territories.

Doctrine of lapse:- One notable British technique was called the doctrine of lapse, first perpetrated by Lord Dalhousie in the late 1840s. It involved the British prohibiting a Hindu ruler without a natural heir from adopting a successor and, after the ruler died or abdicated, annexing his land.