Question

discuss the nature of leadership during the 1857 revolt?

Answer 1

Nature of the 1857 Revolt

The Great revolt of 1857 is often remarked as “India’s first war of Independence. The nature of the revolt is discussed below:

The revolt of 1857 evokes passionate reactions. Was it a mutiny of the sepoys, pure and simple? Or was it a national revolt? For far too long opinions oscillated between these two extremes. To the contemporary British annalists it was a mutiny of a section of misguided sepoys. Charles Ball, John Kaye or Colonel Malleson has all harped on the familiar theme of mutiny fomented by conspiratorial aristocrats. On the other hand Indian nationalists have regarded its nature to be the early footprints of freedom struggle. V.D. Savarkar called it India’s first war of independence.