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प्रश्न
State your Opinion.
Indians were defeated during the struggle of 1857.
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उत्तर
A) Political reasons:
- The higher class people like princes and educated class stayed missing from the revolt
- The revolt did not spread to a large area. It just focused on central India and northwestern India.
- The sepoys could not point out any substitute for the current British rule.
B) Military reasons:
- The British army was so well organized and strong
- The military supplies of the sepoys were too limited
C) Organizational reasons:
- The sepoys were unorganized.
- Very weak leadership. Leaders like Nana Saheb, Tantia Tope, Kunwar Singh, and Rani Lakshmi Bai were not efficient enough to confront the British army.
- The revolt was undirected and did not have any motive.
- It was just the uprising from the religious and emotional wounds of sepoys.
Therefore, Indians were defeated during the struggle of 1857.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
State whether the following statement is True or false:
The Revolt of 1857 did not involve the masses.
- Dudu Mian laid emphasis on the egalitarian nature of Islam and declared that “Land belongs to God”.
- According to the Doctrine of Lapse, new territories under the corrupt Indian rulers were to be annexed.
- The British officials after the suppression of the 1857 Revolt were given the power to judge and take the lives of Indians without due process of law.
- One of the causes of the failure of the Revolt of 1857 was many of the Indian princes and zamindars remained loyal to the British.
The first sign of unrest appeared at ______.
The second half of the ______ saw the emergence of national political consciousness.
The Revolt of 1857 began from ______.
On ______ a band of sepoys from Meerut marched to the Red Fort in Delhi.
By the beginning of June 1857 except ______ and ______ British Rule in North India had disappeared because of the mutineers.
The ______ was the first major revolt of armed forces accompanied by civilian rebellion.
How did the British regain their lost positions after the 1857 revolt?
Explain the statement with reason.
Queen’s Proclamation was published in 1858.
