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      Question

      An annexation policy ‘Doctrine of Lapse’ was started

      by whom in the late 1840’s?
      A Lord Mountbatten Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      B Lord Canning Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      C Lord Dalhousie Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      D Lord Curzon Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
      E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

      Solution

      The Doctrine of Lapse was an annexation policy followed by Lord Dalhousie when he was India’s Governor-General from 1848 to 1856. It was an imperialist approach by the British to expand their empire in Indian territory. 

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