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Explanation

Lord Hastings was the Governor General of India when the Third Anglo-Maratha War took place

Third Anglo-Maratha War was the final and decisive conflict between the English East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India

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Lord Dalhousie was the Governor-General of India from 1847 to 1856.

He merged the state of Punjab with the British Empire, after the Second Anglo-Sikh War

Explanation

Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia.