The State Jhansi was made a part of the British Empire in India through

Lord Dalhousie introduced the Doctrine of Lapse i.e any princely state under the direct influence of East India Company, as a vassal state under the British Subsidiary System would automatically be annexed if the ruler was either "manifestly in competent or died without a male heir. The series of state annexed - Satara, Jaipur, Sambhal pur, Jhansi (1854).