(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions for History and Civics for The First War of Independence, 1857

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

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

Give any two grievances of the peasantry against the British.

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

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).

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.

The Indian Nationalists described the Great Uprising of 1857 as the First War of Independence. with reference to this, answer the following question:

The Revolt of 1857 is also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.

Mention any three military causes which led to the uprising.

Which of the following Acts was resented by the Indian sepoys?

State two effects of the British defeat in the First Afghan War on the Indian soldiers.

State two effects of the British defeat in the Punjab Wars on the Indian soldiers.

How was the Army organised after the First War of Independence?

Study the picture and answer the following questions:

1. Who are the persons in the picture? How were they treated by their British counterparts?
2. State any three grievances they had against the British.
3. What changes were brought in their status after the Uprising of 1857?

Imagine you were a Subedar in the army hailing from a landed family from Awadh. State the grievances your father had against the British.

What was the provision of the General Service Enlistment Act which was resented by the Indian soldiers? Why was it resented?

An effect of the Uprising of 1857 was that ______.

Who was Mangal Pandey?

What did Mangal Pandey do?

Which of the following events of the Uprising of 1857 and their leaders is not correctly matched?

The Uprising of 1857 began from ______.

The Uprising of 1857 was a prolonged period of armed uprising against the British in Northern and Central India. Which of the following was not a major centre of the Uprising?