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The policy is most commonly associated with Dalhousie, who was the East India Company's Governor-General of India of British India between 1848 and 1856. However, the doctrine was articulated by the Court of Directors of the Company as early as 1834, and several smaller states had already been annexed under this doctrine before Dalhousie took ...
The Doctrine of Lapse (1847): Lord Dalhousie, the Governor-General of India, introduced this policy, allowing the British to annex Indian princely states if their rulers died without a male heir. [1] Annexation of Punjab (1847): The British East India Company annexed Punjab after the First Anglo-Sikh War.
James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie KT PC (22 April 1812 – 19 December 1860), known as the Earl of Dalhousie between 1838 and 1849, was a Scottish statesman and colonial administrator in British India. He served as Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856.
The Anglo-Burmese Wars were an armed conflict between two expanding empires, the British Empire and the Konbaung dynasty, that became British India‘s most expensive and longest war, costing 5–13 million pounds sterling (£400 million – £1.1 billion as of 2019) and spanning over 60 years.
Shortly after the diamond came into the possession of the East India Company, Governor-General Lord Dalhousie tasked 22-year old civil servant Theo Metcalfe with compiling the history of the diamond prior to 1849. Metcalfe himself said that he was unable to do a good job, but what he wrote has become the most popular and circulated record of ...
Full text The Despatch of 1854, on General Education in India at Wikisource Wood's despatch is the informal name for a formal despatch that was sent by Sir Charles Wood , the President of the Board of Control of the British East India Company to Lord Dalhousie , the Governor-General of India .
Thus Hastings redrew the map of India to a state which remained more or less unaltered until the time of Lord Dalhousie. [84] The British recognised Pratap Singh (Raja of Satara) , a direct descendant of Shivaji as the ceremonial head of the Maratha Confederacy.
Under Lord Dalhousie, Peacock supported the annexation of Oudh in 1856 through the Doctrine of lapse. He similarly supported Canning throughout the Indian Mutiny . The Legislative Council was established soon after his arrival, although he was so frequent a speaker that legislation that made councillors deliver their speeches sitting was said ...