Resistance before 1857 and the Revolt of 1857
1857: causes, outbreak, centres and leaders
Practise 1 PYQConcepts to cover
- Political (lapse, Awadh), economic (revenue, taluqdars), socio-religious (reforms, missionaries), military (pay, General Service Act, Enfield rifle) causes
- Barrackpore and Mangal Pandey March 1857, Meerut 10 May, march to Delhi and proclamation of Bahadur Shah Zafar
- Delhi (Bakht Khan), Kanpur (Nana Saheb, Tantia Tope), Lucknow (Begum Hazrat Mahal), Jhansi (Lakshmibai), Bareilly (Khan Bahadur Khan), Arrah (Kunwar Singh), Faizabad (Maulvi Ahmadullah)
- Summary Settlement 1856 dispossessed taluqdars; taluqdars, peasants and sepoys joined in Awadh; NCERT reading of rebel proclamations
- Role of rumours, the Azamgarh proclamation and the appeal to a lost order as read in NCERT Theme 10
- Rebel politics in 1857: Mughal symbolism, proclamations, civilian participation and Hindu-Muslim cooperation