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22/05/2021 1:00 pm
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Collect pictures, stories, poems, and information about Lord Dalhousie.
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22/05/2021 1:01 pm
Lord Dalhousie
Governor-general of India (1848 to 1856): Lord Dalhousie is one the most negatively remembered personality in the rule of East India Company. He ruled India with his full efficiency from 1848 to 1856 A.D. In India, he was famous for various negative and positive reasons.
Positive:
- Starting of Railway in 1853 A.D. for the first time, between Bombay to Thane.
- Starting with postal and telegraph services in India.
- Starting with widow remarriage in 1856 A.D.
- Completion of Ganges Canal.
- Reform in Indian civil services.
Negative
- East India Company captured the princely state of Punjab in 1849 A.D.
- Second Anglo-Burmese War.
- Doctrine of Lapse (Most Controversial).
- Annexation of Awadh.
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