Mention any five reasons which result the revolt 1857.
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What were the main causes of Revolt of 1857?
1. Pathetic Socioeconomic Condition.
2. Problems of Land Revenue.
3. Destruction of Economy.
4. Low position of Indians in Administration.
5. Doctrine of Lapse.
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Causes of the revolt (Great rising of 1857)
Political causes
1. Doctrine of lapse.
2. Treatment given to Rani Lakshmi Bai.
3. Discourtesy to the Mughal emperor.
4. Annexation of Awadh.
5. The armies of the annexed states were disbanded.
6. The policy of annexation created panic among
the rulers.
7. The English had a feeling of superiority and treated
the Indians with contempt.
8. The British administration had become corrupt and
people wanted to uproot it.
Social and religious causes
1. Responses to the reforms done by the British.
2. Fear of religious conversion.
3. Apprehensions about English
education.
4. The government taxed land
belonging to the temples and
mosques. It hurt the religious
sentiments of the people.
5. The spread of Western
culture and education gave a
blow to the honour and
influence of the Pandits.
Economic causes
1. Drain of wealth.
2. Ruin of Indian trade/ handicrafts.
3. Impoverishment of the cultivators.
4. Thousands of jagirs were taken away in Deccan
under Dalhousie.
5. After the annexation of Awadh, the land of
zamindars and taluqdars were taken over by the
British.
6. All high posts in
the administration
were only for the
British.
7. All the
economic
policies of the
British benefitted
only them.
Military causes
1. Low salary.
2. Poor prospects of promotion.
3. General service Enlishment Act 1856.
--- according to this, Indian soldier could be asked to
serve overseas.
4. Glut of unemployed soldiers.
5. The ratio of Indians to the British in the army was
great.
The immediate cause
a. The immediate cause of the revolt of 1857 was the
Introduction of the Enfield rifle in the army.
b. The Britishers introduced the Enfield rifle in the
Indian army in 1856.
c. Its cartridge had a greased paper cover whose
end was to be bitten off before loading it into the
rifle.
d. The cartridges were reported to be greased with
the fat of cow and pig.
e. Cow is sacred for the Hindus and Muslims consider
pig as unclean.
f. Both the Hindu and Muslim sepoys were enraged
and thought that the English government wanted to
defame their religion.
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