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16 J. L. & Bus. 41 (2009)
Doctrine of Lapse - A Frayed Link for Expansion of the British Empire in India

handle is hein.journals/jourlbun16 and id is 47 raw text is: Volume 16 - Journal ofLaw and Business - Page 41 DOCTRINE OF LAPSE - A FRAYED LINK FOR EXPANSION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN INDIA Amod Choudhary * I. INTRODUCTION Today India is considered one of the leading emerging countries in the world for its democracy, financial wherewithal and intellectual talent. If this conclusion is universally accepted, then modem India's seeds of democracy and intellectual capacity may have been sown when the first British agent set foot in the court of the Mughal emperor Jahangir in 1609 to seek permission to build an English factory on the western coast of India'. In 1949, the British soldiers officially departed through the Gateway of India ending an association of 349 years2 that completely changed the presently constituted territory of India and also the rest of South East Asia. One of the most discussed and debated Governor-General of the British Empire in India was Lord Dalhousie.4 Dalhousie is credited for making India modem5 based on his * Assistant Professor, Economics & Business Department, City University of New York, Lehman College, Bronx, NY. CLARK WORSWICK & AINSLEE EMBREE, THE LAST EMPIRE 16, (Aperture Book, 1976). 21d. at 42. Countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka constitute South East Asia. Although Mynamar (formerly Burma) and Afghanistan were also part of British Empire in the Indian Subcontinent. 4 The Governor-General was the top most representative of the East India Company in India. He was responsible for overseeing the East India Company's affairs in India. The East India Company was chartered to do business (a monopoly) in India by Queen Elizabeth on New Year's eve in 1600. See BRIAN GARDENER, THE EAST INDIA COMPANY 21 (McCall Publishing Co., 1971). In 1857 many units of the British Army in India were composed of overwhelmingly number of native Indian soldiers who revolted against the British. The revolt has been described

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