Direction: In the following question, sentences of a paragraph have been jumbled and labelled as A, B, C and D. You are required to rearrange the jumbled sentences of the paragraph and mark your response accordingly by selecting the correct option.

A. The doctrine declared that if an Indian ruler died without a male heir his kingdom would “lapse”, that is, become part of Company territory. 
B. Finally, in 1856, the Company also took over Awadh.
C. One kingdom after another was annexed simply by applying this doctrine: Satara (1848), Sambalpur (1850), Udaipur (1852), Nagpur (1853) and Jhansi (1854).
D. Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor-General from 1848 to 1856, had devised a policy that came to be known as the Doctrine of Lapse.