Question

how do the British accounts depict the Revolt of 1857? How are these accounts different from Indian accounts? Answer in no more than 80 words.​

Answer 1

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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.[4][5] The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Delhi (now Old Delhi). It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain and central India,[a][6][b][7] though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east.[c][8] The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region,[d][9] and was contained only with the rebels' defeat in Gwalior on 20 June 1858.[10] On 1

Answer 2

The revolt of 1857 was an uprising of the Indians against the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is considered as the figure of the uprising.

Initially the Sepoys disagreed with the use of British weapons of which the ammunation were made of animal fat which the Indian Hindus regarded sacred and Indian Muslims regarded forbidden.

Following are the British arguments of the revolt:

• The British historians Sir John Lawrence and Seeley, considered the revolt nothing more than a sepoy mutiny. They said it was not patriotic and was just a selfish sepoys revolt.

• Sir James Outram, argued that it was a religious war. The revolt was the result of Hindu-Muslim conspiracy to overthrow British Rule.

• Some British historians and scholars described it as a racial struggle between the white and Indians.

On the other hand Indian historians have other descriptions of the 1857 revolt.

• Indians believe that the revolt was a struggle against Britishers by every strata as everyone was against British rule.
• Our first Prime minister Nehru said it was a movement against feudalism wherein the Indians felt inferior against the Britishers.
• Many scholars believed it was a nation wide movement but because of lack of connectivity among Indians it was unsuccessful.

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