Answer the following questions in short:
a.give an account of the part each one of the following played in the Revolt of
1857:
i.Bahadur Shah
ii.Rani of Jhansi
iii.Nana Sahib
iv.Tantia Tope
b.Explain the events that led to the actual outbreak of the uprising.
Answers
Explanation:
After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the British exiled him from Delhi. Bahadur Shah Zafar was a noted Urdu poet, having written a number of Urdu ghazals. While some part of his opus was lost or destroyed during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a large collection did survive, and was compiled into the Kulliyyat-i-Zafar.
(b) Lakshmibai was given a pension and told to leave the palace and fort. The Rani of Jhansi rose to prominence during India's first war of independence in 1857. The rebellion started as a sepoy mutiny on May 10, 1857, in Meerut, and then spread to other parts of northern and central India.
(c)Nana Sahib (19 May 1824 – 1859), born as Dhondu Pant, was an Indian Peshwa of Maratha empire, aristocrat and fighter, who led the rebellion in Cawnpore (Kanpur) during the 1857 uprising.
(d)Tantia Tope was a general in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and one of its notable leaders. ... However, he was defeated by General Napier's British Indian troops at Ranod and after a further defeat at Sikar abandoned the campaign. He was executed by the British Government at Shivpuri on 18 April 1859.