Lord Dalhousie (jan 12, 1848 – feb 28, 1856)

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- Doctrine of Lapse (1848)
- Second Anglo-Sikh War (1848–1849) (The British defeated the Sikh Empire and annexed Punjab)
- Bethune Collegiate School (1849) (was also known as Calcutta Female School) was established by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune
- Religious Disabilities Act, 1850
- The first telegraph line was laid between Diamond Harbour to Calcutta (1851)
- Second Anglo-Burmese War (1852) (The sole aim of Dalhousie was to humiliate and annex more of Burmese Territories. Burma was attacked unprovoked)
- Charter Act, 1853
- First Passenger train between Bombay and Thane (1853)
- Charles Wood Despatch (1854)
- Post Office Act, 1854
- Established Public Works Department (1854)
- Santhal Rebellion (1855)
- Annexation of Oudh on the grounds of alleged internal misrule (1856)
- Establishment of summer capital at Shimla
- Banned female infanticide completely and human sacrifice in Odisha and Maharashtra

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