the blanks:
1. A massive rebellion that started in 1857
threatened the company's very
presence in India.
2.
had been stationed in many courts of rajas and nawabs.
3. Awadh was taken over by the British in the year
4. The
were unhappy about their pay, allowances and conditions of service.
5. Mangal Pandey refused to use greased
6. The Meerut regiment captured Delhi and declared
as the
emperor of India.
7. Bahadur Shah Zafar was exiled to
8. At Kanpur, the revolt was led by
9.
annexed Jhansi under the Doctrine of Lapse.
10.
led the revolt at Lucknow.
11.
was the able commander of Nana Sahib's forces.
12. The British soldiers were entitled to a foreign service allowance, also known as
13.
introduced the Doctrine of Lapse.
14.
was the last Mughal emperor.
15. According to the
if an Indian ruler died without any natural born male
heirs, their land became the property of the British East India Company.
16.
announced that Bahadur Shah Zafar's successors would not
be allowed to use royal titles.
17. Bahadur Shah Zafar and his successors were ordered to leave the Red Fort by
Answers
Answer:
1.Mutiny to Popular Rebellion. The rebellion of May 1857 threatened the Company's very presence in India. The mutiny which started from the cantonment in Meerut engulfed a large part of northern and central India. People from different sections of society rose up in rebellion.
3.1856
4.Indian sepoys in the Company's armies were unhappy about their pay, allowances, and condition of work. In 1856, the Company passed a new law which stated that every new person who took up employment in the Company's army had to agree to serve overseas if required.
5.Influenced by the example of his compatriots in Berhampur, Mangal Panday refused to use the greasedcartridges and broke into open mutiny on March 29, 1857, at Barrackpore near Calcutta and urged his comrades to join him. ... He was court-martialled on April 6, and hanged at Barrackpore on April 8, 1857.
6.Bahadur Shah Zafar
7.Rangoon
8.The policy is most commonly associated with Lord Dalhousie, who was the Governor General of the East India Company in India between 1848 and 1856.
9.Princely states annexed under the doctrine.
Princely State Year Annexed
Jaswan 1849
Jhansi 1854
Kachari 1830
Kangra 1846
10.The revolt at Lucknow was led by the Begum of Avadh who had proclaimed her young son, Birjis Kadr, as the Nawab of Avadh.
11.Tatya Tope was the able commander of nana saheb's force. His real name was Ramchandra Panduranga.
12.The British soldier were entitled to a foreign service allowance or what is called as Batta. There was a great discrimination between the soldiers of India and British. Indian soldiers were paid a very less salary as compared to the Britisher soldiers. These reasons and some other led to the Revolt of 1857.
13.The doctrine of lapse was an annexation policy applied by the British East India Company in India until 1859.
14.Bahadur Shah Zafar II
17.Lord Dalhousie asked Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar to leave the Red fort and Lord Canning ordered that he and his successors cannot use the title of KINGS.
Answer:
3)1856
4)sepoys
5)cartridges which were coated with the fat of cows and pigs
6)Bahadur Shah Zafar
7)Rangoon jail
8)Nana saheb
10)Birjis Khan the son of Wajid Ali Shah
11) tantia Tope
14)Aurangzeb
16)General Canning