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Lord Dalhousie annexed Oudh for the British Empire in India - |
| A. | through policy of subsidiary alliance |
| B. | through doctrine of lapse |
| C. | as the State being maladministered |
| D. | through wagging a war |
| Answer» C. as the State being maladministered | |
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Explanation: The British took over Awadh (Oudh) (1856) claiming that the local ruler was not ruling properly despite the fact that the British relations with the state of Awadh went back to the Treaty of Allahabad in 1765. In 1851, William Sleeman, Resident at Lucknow, reported on the "spectacle of human misery and careless misrule". |
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