Resistance before 1857 and the Revolt of 1857
1857: failure, nature and consequences
Practise 1 PYQConcepts to cover
- Limited spread, no unified leadership or programme, loyal princes and educated classes, British resources and telegraph
- Sepoy mutiny, feudal reaction or first war of independence: Savarkar, Sen, Majumdar and later readings
- Proclamation of 1 November 1858: Crown takes over, no more annexation, respect for treaties with princes, religious neutrality, amnesty
- Reorganisation of the army (European ratio, divide by region and caste), princes as bulwarks, policy of divide and rule
- British and Indian images of 1857: paintings, memorials, nationalist retellings as read in NCERT Theme 10