Lord Dalhousie (James Andrew Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie) was the Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856 one of the most consequential and controversial British administrators.
Policies:
- Doctrine of Lapse: Any princely state without a natural male heir would be annexed by the British states annexed: Satara (1848), Jhansi (1853), Nagpur (1854), Awadh (1856)
- Annexation of Punjab (1849) after the Second Anglo-Sikh War
- Introduced India's first railway (Bombay to Thane, 1853), telegraphs, and a modern postal system
- Established the Public Works Department (PWD)
His annexationist policies are widely cited as a major cause of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.