Question

what were the economic cause of the revolt of 1857

Answer 1

Economic Cause:- The British East India company looted and drained many important valuable resources from our country and as a result the economic condition of our country became very poor. Besides the British imposed various taxes and excise duties on the Indians and as the Indians could not tolerate it and they started to revolt against the British.

Answer 2

Economic causes of revolt of 1857

Due to the British expansionist policies, most of the Raja’s, Nawab’s and the zamindar’s, were either dispossessed from their state or became subsidiary to the British. b) The East India Company (EIC) had a planned way of expansionism and many Indian states easily fell prey to the policies of the East India Company. c) The policy of Trade and Commerce subjugated the state, the policy of indirect subordination (subsidiary alliance), policy of war and annexation, policy of direct subordination (doctrine of lapse), policy of misgovernance (in which Awadh was annexed). d) These policies greatly hampered the interests of the rulers of the native states, and they one by one became victims of British expansionism.