Question

Discuss the nature of the great revolt 1857

Answer 1

There is a great controversy amongst the scholars over the nature of the revolt of 1857. British historian have only considered it as a “sepoy mutiny”, they consider its immediate cause the greased cartridges only. Some other foreign historian holds it to be a “Muslim conspiracy” against the British and its aim was to re-establish the Mughal Empire under the leadership of Bahadur shah zafar. But according to majority of Indian historians, this was the first war of independence or first nation movement.