Revolt of 1857

Motivational quote

Don’t spend today

worrying why yesterday
was bad

Spend it planning on how

to make tomorrow better
Rebellion = organized refusal of
obedience or order.

Revolt = is usually spur the

moment/spontaneous

Mutiny = the result of a criminal

conspiracy (usually having to do
with members of the military/a
ship's crew members)
Lord Dalhousie (1848-56) :
❑ Fought 2nd anglo sikh war (1848-49)
❑ 2nd anglo Burmese war 1852
❑ Used doctarine of lapse
o satara 1848
o jaitpur and sambhalpur 1849
o Udaipur 1852
o Jhansi 1853
❑ Annexed awadh on the ground of
maladministration
❑ Introduce bon regulation system
a system of centralize control
❑ Railway development.
1st line Mumbai to than
2nd line Calcutta to raniganj
❑ Found modern telegraph and
postal system
❑ Separate public work
department
❑ Hindu widow remarriage act
1856
Rising discontent: Revolt which
was a product of the character
and policies of colonial rule after
1757 :

• Expansionist policy
• economic exploitation
• administrative innovations
• Religious policy
 Economic causes

• Destroyed the traditional economic

fabric of the Indian society
• unpopular revenue settlement
• heavy taxation
• peasants resorted to loans from money
lenders/traders at usurious rates, the
latter often evicting the former from
their land on non-payment of debt
dues. These money-lenders and traders
emerged as the new landlords.
• British rule also meant misery to the artisans
and handicrafts people
• Karl Marx in 1853:It was the British intruder
who broke up the Indian handloom and
destroyed the spinning-wheel and inundated
the very mother country of cotton with
cottons
1)Indian handicraft was not accompanied by
the development of modern industries
2)high tariff duties in inidan good....british good
low tariff
3)mid-nineteenth century, exports of cotton
and silk textiles from India practically came to
an end.
4)ruin of Indian industry increased the pressure
on agriculture and land
Political Causes:
• greedy policy of Aggrandisement
• Subsidiary Alliance
• Doctrine of Lapse :collapse of
rulers adversely affected those
sections of the Indian society
which derived their sustenance
from cultural and religious
pursuits
Administrative Causes:
Rampant corruption in the Company’s
administration, especially among the
police, petty officials and lower law

Socio-Religious Causes:
Activities of Christian missionaries who
followed the British flag in India were
looked upon with suspicion by Indians
• abolition of sati
• support to widow-marriage
• government’s decision to tax mosque
and temple lands
Influence of Outside Events:
• First Afghan War (1838-42)
• Punjab Wars (1845-49)

British were seen to be not so strong and it was

felt that they could be defeat.

Discontent Among Sepoys:

• conditions of service
• Restrictions on wearing caste and sectarian
marks crossing the seas meant loss of caste.
• General Service Enlistment Act: All future
recruits to the Bengal Army would have to
give an undertaking to serve anywhere their
services might be required by the
government
Questions on revolt of
1857 :
who was governer general of
india during the sepoy mutiny?

(A) lord canning

(B) lord dalhousie
(C) lord hardinge
(D) lord lytton
Answer: A
what was/were the objects of queen victoria
proclamation(1858)-

1) To disclaim any intenittion to annex indian

states
2) To place the indian administration under the
british crown

select the correct answer-

(A) 1 only
(B) 2 only
(c) both 1 and 2
(D) none
Answer: C
The ruler of which one of the
following state was remove from
power by the british on the pretext
of misgovernance-

(A) Awadh
(B) jabalpur
(C) satara
(D) jhansi
Answer: A
with reference to the revolt of 1857, who
of the following was betrayed by a friend;
captured and put to death by the british

(A)nana sahib
(B)khan bahadur khan
(C)kunwar singh
(D)tantia tope
Answer: D
which of the following
territories was not affected by
the revolt of 1857-

(A)chittor
(B)jhansi
(C)jagdishpur
(D)luckhnow
Answer: A
consider the following princely state of
british rule in india
1.jhansi
2.sambalpur
3.Satara
Select the correct chronological orderin
which they are annexed-
(A)1-2-3
(B)1-3-2
(C)3-2-1
(D)3-1-2
Answer: C
The educated middle class of
india :

(A)oppose the revolt of 1857

(B)supported the revolt of
1857
(C)remained neutral
(D)fought against native
Answer: A
match list1 and list2 select the answer
list-1 list-2
(A)first war of independence 1. Rabindranath
tagore
(B)ananda math 2.sri aurobindo
(C)life divine 3.bankim chandra
chatterji
(d)sadhana 4.vinayak damodar
savarkar
codes-

A-B-C-D
(a)4-3-2-1
(b)3-1-2-4
(c)4-3-1-2
(d)3-4-2-1
Answer: A
which of the following pairs is
incorrectly matched?
revolt leaders
(a)allahabad - maulvi ahmadullah
(b)banars - maulvi liyakata ali
(c)farrukhabad- tufzal hasan khan
(d)bijnor - mohammed khan
Answer: A

Explanation: Maulvi Ahmadullh

leader at Faizabad
which of the following pairs is incorrectly
matched?

Authors - books

(a) TR holms - sepoy war

(b) pc joshi - 1857 in india

(c) eric stokes - the peasant and raj

(d) ashok Mehta - 1857 The great revolt

Answer: B

Explanation: 1857 in india was written by ET Embree

Which of the following statemnets are correct
regarding the reorganisation of army after 1857
revolt:

1) The percentage of europeans in the army were

increased
2) To create division among various groups in
army some races like sikh gurkhas were declared
non martial.

select the correct answer-

(A) 1 only
(B) 2 only
(c) both 1 and 2
(D) none
Thank you