<P> At the time of its adoption , the British East India Company had imperial administrative jurisdiction over wide regions of the subcontinent . The company took over the princely states of Satara ( 1848 ) , Jaitpur and Sambalpur ( 1849 ) , Nagpur and Jhansi ( 1854 ) , Tanjore and Arcot ( 1855 ) and Udaipur ( Chhattisgarh ) under the terms of the doctrine of lapse . Oudh ( 1856 ) is widely believed to have been annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse . However it was annexed by Lord Dalhousie under the pretext of mis - governance . Mostly claiming that the ruler was not ruling properly , the Company added about four million pounds sterling to its annual revenue by virtue of this doctrine . Udaipur State , however , would have local rule reinstated by the British in 1860 . </P>
<P> At the time of its adoption , the British East India Company had imperial administrative jurisdiction over wide regions of the subcontinent . The company took over the princely states of Satara ( 1848 ) , Jaitpur and Sambalpur ( 1849 ) , Nagpur and Jhansi ( 1854 ) , Tanjore and Arcot ( 1855 ) and Udaipur ( Chhattisgarh ) under the terms of the doctrine of lapse . Oudh ( 1856 ) is widely believed to have been annexed under the Doctrine of Lapse . However it was annexed by Lord Dalhousie under the pretext of mis - governance . Mostly claiming that the ruler was not ruling properly , the Company added about four million pounds sterling to its annual revenue by virtue of this doctrine . Udaipur State , however , would have local rule reinstated by the British in 1860 . </P>
first princely state to be annexed by doctrine of lapse
first princely state to be annexed by doctrine of lapse
Satara
Satara