why is the name of Revolt hotly debate topic
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book is divided into five parts, which reflect differing views of the
1857 uprising, from a mutiny, to a freedom struggle to a popular protest.
Early historians - almost all British, focused on the disaffection in the
military, particularly with the beef-greased cartridges for the Enfield
bullets, which had to be bitten to be used. 1857 was labelled as a "sepoy
mutiny" - essentially a military revolt, and not a widespread freedom
movement.
This view was vehemently opposed by Indian nationalists, who argued for it as
a "war of independence", but many of the claims made by writers such as
Savarkar may have been outright fabrication. The germs of this argument
however, were refined and presented by a group of historians, who are
presented in the second section. In fact, my impetus to buy this book came
because I wanted to read some of S.B. Chaudhuri's writings on
the mutiny, which was one of the more forceful articulations of the
role of the civil population in the mutiny, opposing earlier colonial views
of the mutiny as a disaffection primarily within the military service.
His essay is included in the second section of the book, which reviews the
wide popular participation among the peasants, and argues for 1857 being
much more than a revolt by the sepoys.
Indeed, the work of Chaudhuri and others, writing around the centenary year
of 1957, explored the causes of the revolt among the peasantry, a theme
that was picked up by a number of British historians like Eric Stokes, who
agreed with the need to look at the peasant population as whole, but took
issue with the nature and extent of this role:
Answer:
1857 uprising, from a mutiny, to a freedom struggle to a popular protest. movement. of the mutiny as a disaffection primarily within the military service. much more than a revolt by the sepoys.
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