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Who devised the policy of Doctrine of Lapse?

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Lord Dalhousie devised the policy of Doctrine of Lapse. The doctrine of lapse was a policy of annexation initiated by the East India Company in the Indian subcontinent in relation to the princely states, and applied until 1859, two years after Company rule was succeeded by the British Raj.

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