HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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4, 2, 3, 1
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1, 2, 3, 4
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2, 1, 4, 3
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3, 2, 1, 4
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Detailed explanation-1: -This arrangement was known as Subsidiary Alliance. Doctrine of Lapse-It was a policy of the British East India Company under which if the ruler of a princely state or territory under the paramountcy of the Company died without a natural heir, the state/territory would automatically be annexed to the British empire.
Detailed explanation-2: -doctrine of lapse, in Indian history, formula devised by Lord Dalhousie, governor-general of India (1848–56), to deal with questions of succession to Hindu Indian states.
Detailed explanation-3: -Both the process of Doctrine of lapse and subsidiary alliance were used by the Britishers as the powerful tools for the policy of annexation because these were the instruments where they had to put or invest the least effort and that too at the cost of Indian economy and Indian Power and gain much .