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When territory wasn’t acquired by conquest — Sind from Baluchi princes, Punjab and Kashmir from the Sikhs, Maharashtra and Delhi from the Marathas, or Assam from Burma — the British annexed it by so-called Principles of Lapse and Paramountcy.
The cartridge blunder became a pretext for avenging other grievances, with troops rallying around the rulers dispossessed by Lapse or Paramountcy.