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Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay

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Dalhousie, James Andrew Broun Ramsay (1812-1860)

British administrator, governor general of India 1848-56. In the second Sikh War he annexed the Punjab in 1849, and, following the second Burmese War, Lower Burma in 1853. He reformed the Indian army and civil service and furthered social and economic progress. He succeeded to earldom in 1838 and was made a marquess in 1849.
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