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The doctrine of lapsation was a policy of annexation initiated by the East India Company in the Indian subcontinent for the princely states, and applied until the year 1858, the year after Company rule was succeeded by the British Raj under the British Crown. The policy is associated with James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie.
The most controversial and tainted 'reform' developed and implemented under Dalhousie was the policy of taking all legal (often illegal too) means possible to assume control over "lapsed" states. Dalhousie, driven by the conviction that all India needed to be brought under British administration, began to apply what was called the doctrine of ...
General George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, GCB (23 October 1770 – 21 March 1838), styled Lord Ramsay until 1787, and Baron Dalhousie from 1815, was a Scottish soldier and colonial administrator. He was Governor of Nova Scotia from 1816 to 1820, Governor General of British North America from 1820 to 1828 and later Commander-in-Chief in India .
The Thuggee and Dacoity Suppression Acts, 1836–48 in British India under East India Company rule were a series of legal acts that outlawed thugee—a practice in North and Central India involving robbery and ritualized murder and mutilation on highways—and dacoity, a form of banditry prevalent in the same region, and prescribed punishment ...
Lord Dalhousie personally finalised the bill despite the opposition and it being considered a flagrant breach of customs as prevalent then. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] Thus, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar changed the fate of Hindu widows across India, which was essential in reforming Hinduism that was submerged in social evils during 19th century.
In 1849 he was created Marquess of Dalhousie, of Dalhousie Castle in the County of Edinburgh and of the Punjab, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Lord Dalhousie assumed the additional surname of Broun of Colstoun upon succeeding to the Colstoun estates. He had no male issue and on his death in 1860 the marquessate and barony of 1815 became ...
William Ramsay, 1st Earl of Dalhousie Born 1590 at Dalhousie Castle, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland and died 12 Feb 1673 at Dalhousie Castle, Cockpen, Midlothian, Scotland. [ 1 ] He was a Scottish nobleman, army officer and politician.
Edward Law, Lord Ellenborough (1790–1871) 28 February 1842 June 1844 Gwalior War (1843) (British defeat Marathas) Bank of Madras (1843) established (later Imperial Bank of India, now State Bank of India) Conquest and annexation of Sind Province (1843) [9] Indian Slavery Act, 1843; William Wilberforce Bird (acting) (1784–1857) June 1844: 23 ...