Also: James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie
Definition
Lord Dalhousie was Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856, known for aggressive annexations through war and the Doctrine of Lapse, and for introducing railways, the telegraph and a modern postal system.
Dalhousie arrived in India at the age of thirty-five, the youngest Governor-General up to that time, with experience at the Board of Trade in Britain, where he had dealt with railway development. He believed firmly in the superiority of British administration and in the benefits of bringing more territory under direct rule. His years in India were marked by a combination of conquest, annexation and administrative modernisation that reshaped the map of British India.
He took charge just as the Second Anglo-Sikh War began. After the British victories at Chillianwala and Gujrat in 1849, he annexed Punjab, and the young Maharaja Duleep Singh was pensioned off and later taken to Britain; the Koh-i-Noor diamond passed to the British Crown. The Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852 added Lower Burma, including Pegu. Alongside war, he used legal and political doctrines to absorb princely states.
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