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When People Rebel 1857 and After

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What was the demand of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi that was refused by the British?

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Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi wanted the Company to recognise her adopted son as the heir to the kingdom after the death of her husband.

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How did the Company suppress the revolt?

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The company brought reinforcements from England, passed new laws so that the rebels could be convicted with ease, and then moved into the storm centres of the revolt. Delhi was recaptured from the rebel forces in September 1857.

The last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar was tried in court and sentenced to life imprisonment. His sons were shot dead before his eyes. He and his wife Begum Zinat Mahal were sent to prison in Rangoon in October 1858. Bahadur Shah Zafar died in the Rangoon jail in November 1862.

The recapture of Delhi, however, did not mean that the rebellion died down after that. People continued to resist and battle the British. The British had to fight for two years to suppress the massive forces of popular rebellion.

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Read the following extract taken from the NCERT textbook (page 53) and answer the questions that follow:

The list of eighty-four rules

Given here are excerpts from the book Majha Pravaas, written by Vishnubhatt Godse, a Brahman from a village in Maharashtra. He and his uncle had set out to attend a yajna being organised in Mathura. Vishnubhatt writes that they met some sepoys on the way who told them that they should not proceed on the journey because a massive upheaval was going to break out in three days. The sepoys said:

the English were determined to wipe out the religions of the Hindus and the Muslims ... they had made a list of eighty-four rules and announced these in a gathering of all big kings and princes in Calcutta. They said that the kings refused to accept these rules and warned the English of dire consequences and massive upheaval if these are implemented ... that the kings all returned to their capitals in great anger ... all the big people began making plans. A date was fixed for the war of religion and the secret plan had been circulated from the cantonment in Meerut by letters sent to different cantonments.

Vishnubhatt Godse, Majha Pravaas, pp. 23-24.

Questions:

(i) Who was Vishnubhatt Godse? Where was he going and for what purpose?

(ii) Whom did he meet on the way? What did they tell him?

(iii) What further information did they give to Vishnubhatt?

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(i) Vishnubhatt Godse was a Brahman from a village in Maharashtra. He was going to Mathura to attend a yajna.

(ii)He met some sepoys on the way. The sepoys told him that he should not proceed on the journey because a massive upheaval was going to break out in three days.

(iii) The sepoys further informed Vishnubhatt about the ways the British were destroying the religions of the Hindus and the Muslims and anger that spread due to it among the rulers and the common mass. All the big people had fixed a date for the war of religion and that date would be coming in three days.

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Study the picture given below taken from NCERT textbook (page 60) and answer the questions that follow:

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(i) What do you see in the above picture?

(ii) What does the artist want to show?

Solution

(i) British forces are capturing the rebels.

(ii) The artist wants to show the British soldiers who are valiantly advancing on the rebel forces.

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