Nature Of The Revolt Of 1857

NATURE OF THE REVOLT OF 1857

The drive of 1857 began on 10th may 1857 when the 11th and 20th Native Cavalry of the Bengal Army, assembled in Meerut, turn on their commanding officers. They then made their way to Delhi and on 11th May captured the Red Fort. Bahadur Shah Zafar II, who had been reduced to being a pensioner of the English East India Company, was proclaimed the Emperor of Hindustan and attraction of the rebellion. Following this, the revolt spread to several other part of India. By the end of 1857, however, the British began to regain ground. The revolt finally came to an end in 1858.

The Revolt of 1857 was fundamentally different from earliest instances of rebellion by the soldiers in the 19th century. Prior to this, the mutinies had remained isolated or local affairs. However, unlike these, the scale and spread of the Revolt of 1857 was larger - sepoys at many centers mutinied and this was accompanied by obliging disturbances. The extent of the revolt was mostly over North, Central and westward India. Southern India, Punjab and Bengal did not witness any serious disturbance.



whatever of the leaders of the revolt were - Nana Sahib, the adopted son of the Peshwa Baji Rao II, at Kanpur; Begum Hazrat Mahal at Lucknow; Khan Bahadur at Rohilkhand; Rani Lakshmibai at Jhansi; the zamindar, Kunwar Singh at Arrah; and Tantia pledge at Bareilly.

Another question that is discussed is whether the revolt was a plotted conspiracy or a spontaneous unorganized volcanic eruption. In the 19th century, in the British narratives of the mutiny, the activities of the sepoys were written about as something dis directly and chaotic - the work of disloyal soldiery. Malleson claimed to demonstrate that the 1857 outbreak had a premeditated design at a level of leadership outside and above that of the sepoy regiments, a plot which misfired solo in its actual timing. More recently, Eric Stokes has argued that the mutinies were “the work of a itsy-bitsy minority; the mutinies were the...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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