Kis governor general ne hadap niti apnai

Policy of the East India Company regarding princely states

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 , the year after Company rule was succeeded by the British Raj under the British Crown.

Leps ki niti kya thi

Leps ki niti kya thi

Lord dalhousie ki hadap niti

Baghat doctrine of lapse

Doctrine of lapse in india

Rajya apharan niti kya hai

The policy is associated with James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie.

Elements of the doctrine of lapse continued to be applied by the post-independence Indian government to derecognise individual princely families until , when the recognition of former ruling families was discontinued under the 26th amendment to the Indian constitution by the Indira Gandhi government.

Doctrine

According to the doctrine, any Indian princely state under the suzerainty of the East India Company, the dominant imperial power in the Indian system of subsidiary alliances, would have its princely status abolished, and therefore be annexed into directly ruled