Question

Write the detail of Lord Dalhousie and the policies adopted by him

Answer 1

The doctrine of lapse was an annexation policy applied by the Lord Dalhousie in India before 1858. According to the doctrine, any Indian princely state under the suzerainty of the British East India Company

Answer 2

Lord Dalhousie was the Governor-General of India from 1848-1856. He is an important figure in the history of India who created the map of modern India and the through his attempts centralized the Indian states. As the Governor- General of India he introduced administrative, social, Commercial, educational and postal reforms. Dalhousie considered that the exports of the British good to the native states of India were suffering because of the misrule of the Indian states by the native rulers. Therefore, to expand the export of British product in India he introduced the Doctrine of Lapse. It was a policy of annexation for the Indian Princely states. The idea of the doctrine was that if any of the Princely states of India has no legal male heir, would be annexed by the company.  As a result of this doctrine, many of the Indian princely states lost their sovereignty.