Q. The State Jhansi was made a part of the British Empire in India through ____:
Answer: Doctrine of Lapse
Notes: The Doctrine of Lapse was based on the presumption that the East India Company was the Supreme Power in India and that all native states were subordinate to it. Jhansi was an independent princely state ruled by the Maratha Newalkar dynasty under suzerainty of British India from 1804 till 1853, when the British authorities took over State under the terms of the Doctrine of Lapse. Before that it was under the Peshwas from 1728 to 1804.

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