Causes of First War of Independence - Economic Causes

Give two examples to show how the British exploited the resources of India.

What did the British do to reduce the landed aristocracy to poverty?

By the provisions of which of the following, 20,000 estates of the landlords were confiscated by the East India Company?

Economic exploitation of the country produced discontent, resentment, and resistance among the people that culminated in the Great Uprising of 1857.

1. The ruin of trade and handicrafts.
2. Impoverishment of the cultivators.
3. Subordination of the Indian economy to British interests (making India an agricultural colony of British capitalism).

Give any two grievances of the peasantry against the British.

Imagine you were an artisan, in the year 1856. Mention any two ways in which the economic policies of the British would have affected you.

Although the First War of Independence of 1857 failed, it had important consequences for India. In this context, answer the following questions:

1. How did the Uprising give rise to nationalism in India?
2. How did the end of the East India Company’s rule bring in grave economic perils in India?
3. State how the British Government tried to pacify the feelings of Indians with regard to:
   1. their religious practices.
   2. the Princely States.

Explain the causes of the Great Revolt of 1857 with reference to the following:

Any four economic causes