Judicial Administration

Judicial Administration Cornwallis organized company administration securing the services of William Jones, a judge and an Orientalist. He set up a machinery for the detection and punishment of crime, thereby ending the dual system of government established by Clive. The collection By applying this policy known as Doctrine of Lapse, the first state to fall was Satara. Shahji of Satara died ( ) and the son he adopted on the eve of his death was not recognized by Dalhousie. Gangadhar Rao, Raja of Jhansi died in November and Dalhousie annexed that state immediately. (His widow, Rani Lakshmi Bai, played a prominent role in the Great Rebellion of .) Raghuji Bhonsle III died in without a child. Nagpur was immediately annexed. In , the last Peshwa died. He had been a pensioner of the Company for thirty- three years, but Dalhousie refused to continue paying the pension to his son, the Nana Sahib. The Doctrine of Lapse, thus, served as an instrument for the pursuit of its annexation policy. When the Crown took over India in Doctrine of Lapse was withdrawn.