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Answer the following question:
Discuss the nature of the Uprising/Revolt of 1857.
Solution
There are divergent views regarding the nature of the outbreak of 1857. British historians have called it a Mutiny – confined to the army which did not command the support of the people at large.
Same view was held by .contemporary Indians like Munshi Jiwan Lai, Moinuddin, (Both eyewitnesses at Delhi), and Durgadas Bandopadhyaya. Others have described it as a racial struggle for supremacy between the Black and White. Some describe it as a struggle between oriental and occidental civilisation and culture.
A few have described it as a Hindu-Muslim conspiracy to overthrow British rule. Some Indians have called it a “well-planned struggle” and as “the first war of Indian Independence”.
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