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Mention any five reasons which result the revolt 1857.​

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Answered by aa9085713
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Answer:

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.

Explanation:

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Answered by swarajdas0000001
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Answer:

Explanation:

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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