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Railways PYQCBT 1 2016

RRB NTPC · Question 46

Who devised the policy of Doctrine of Lapse?

  1. Lord Curzon

  2. Lord Mountbatten

  3. Lord Dalhousie

  4. Robert Clive

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Answer: (C) Lord Dalhousie

Explanation

Lord Dalhousie, Governor-General from 1848 to 1856, applied the Doctrine of Lapse: a princely state whose ruler died without a natural heir would be annexed by the British. Satara, Jhansi and Nagpur were annexed this way.