SSC Steno Grade C and D 14 Sep 2017 Shift 1 Paper

(4) The doctrine of lapse wasan annexation policy devisedby Lord Dalhousie, the GovernorGeneral for the East IndiaCompany in India between1848 and 1856. This doctrinewas based on the idea that incase a ruler of dependent statedied childless, the right of rulingover the State reverted or‘lapsed’ to the sovereign.