Question : Lord Dalhousie annexed Oudh for the British Empire in India
Option 1: through policy of subsidiary alliance
Option 2: through doctrine of lapse
Option 3: as the State being maladministered
Option 4: through wagging a war
Correct Answer: as the State being maladministered
Solution : Correct Answer is as the State being maladministered
He is said to have implemented this strategy because he believed that British rule was vastly superior to that of the repressive and dishonest native rulers. On February 7, 1856, Governor General Lord Dalhousie issued a proclamation annexing Awadh to the East India Company under the pretext of alleged internal misrule as defined by the Doctrine of Lapse.
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