who was lord dalhousie
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Lord Dalhousie (Real name James Andrew Ramsay) served as Governor General of India from 1848 to 1856. During this period, Second Anglo-Sikh War (1849) was fought in which the Sikhs were defeated again and Dalhousie was successful in annexing the whole of Punjab to the British administration. He annexed many states by doctrine of lapse. During his tenure, first railway line between Bombay and Thane was opened in 1853 and in the same year Calcutta and Agra were connected by telegraph. His other reforms include setting up of P.W.D. and passing of the Widow Remarriage Act (1856).
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James Andrew Broun-Ramsay was a Scottish Statesman and former governor-general of colony India.Using his new policy called the Doctrine of Lapse,he annexed many kingdoms such as Satara,Nagpur,Jhansi etc..He also accused the then Awadh ruler ,Nawab Wajid Ali Shah , of misgovernance and thus annexed Awadh in 1856.He was in office from January 1848 to February 1856 and contributed a lot in British expansion over India.He also connected Calcutta(modern Kolkata) to agra through telegraph .
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