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The document summarizes key details about the 1857 revolt in India such as its immediate causes, reasons leading up to it from 1757-1857, and how different historians have viewed the nature of the revolt. The immediate cause of the revolt was the use of gun cartridges greased with cow and pig fat, which upset both Hindu and Muslim sepoys. Reasons leading up to it included exploitation of peasants through revenue systems, closure of Indian and rural industries, conversion efforts to Christianity, and social reforms acts related to sati, slaves, and widow remarriage that interfered with Indian society. Historians have analyzed the revolt in different ways such as a sepoy movement, a revolt against Christianity, a war

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1857 REVOLT: Kalamin Vidhaigal Whatsapp Group

The document summarizes key details about the 1857 revolt in India such as its immediate causes, reasons leading up to it from 1757-1857, and how different historians have viewed the nature of the revolt. The immediate cause of the revolt was the use of gun cartridges greased with cow and pig fat, which upset both Hindu and Muslim sepoys. Reasons leading up to it included exploitation of peasants through revenue systems, closure of Indian and rural industries, conversion efforts to Christianity, and social reforms acts related to sati, slaves, and widow remarriage that interfered with Indian society. Historians have analyzed the revolt in different ways such as a sepoy movement, a revolt against Christianity, a war

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1857 REVOLT

General facts-
PM of England – Palmerston
Governor general – Lord Canning of India
Emperor of India – Bahadur Sah Jafar
Commander of Britishers –Campbell

REASONS OF REVOLT
A. Reason between 1757 – 1857
Wellesely – Treaty of Subsidiary Alliance
Dallousive – Doctrine of lapse
Revenue System- Exploitation of Peasents
Education → Modernity → Analysis
Indian Industries → closed
Rural Industries → closed
Conversion into Christan
Social interference → Sati, Slave, widow remarriage Act.
Sepoy dissatisfaction

B. Immediate Cause
Use of rifle, cartridges of this rifle were made from cow and pig fat.

Nature of Revolt

Lorentz & Seele : Sepoy movement


Reege : Revolt against Christianity
Homes : A war between cirilisation and anarchasim
Taylor : Hindu – Muslim conspiracy
Disraeli : National movement
R. C. majumdar : Neither first nor national and freedom struggle
V. D. Sawarkar : First war of Independence

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1857 Revolt

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