Morning Star solutions for Total History and Civics [English] Class 10 chapter 1 - The First War of Independence, 1857 [Latest edition]

The East India Company's territorial power began to increased rapidly in India after which of the following Battles?

The First Indian State to enter into the Subsidiary Alliance with the East India Company was ______.

Lord Dalhousie annexed a number of Indian states to the East India Company using ______.

Nana Saheb was the adopted son of ______.

Where was the family seat of Nana Saheb located?

Which of the following reforms was resented by the Indians?

Jhansi was annexed by applying which of the following?

Seventy-five thousand of the Company's sepoys belonged. to which of the following states?

By the provisions of which of the following, 20,000 estates of the landlords were confiscated by the East India Company?

Which of the following Acts was resented by the Indian sepoys?

Which of the following events of the Uprising of 1857 and their leaders is not correctly matched?

Which of the following was the result of the Great Uprising of 1857?

The Uprising of 1857 began from ______.

An effect of the Uprising of 1857 was that ______.

Who introduced the Subsidiary Alliance in India?

After the initial success of the Uprising of 1857, the objective of the leaders of the Uprising included.

Under the Government of India Act 1858, who gave up the direct administration of India?

The Uprising of 1857 was a prolonged period of armed uprising against the British in Northern and Central India. Which of the following was not a major centre of the Uprising?

What was the nature of revolts against the British before the First War of Independence?

Why was the ‘war of 1857’ hailed as the first war of National Independence?

State any two political causes responsible for the First War of Independence.

Name two ways in which the British expanded their territorial power in India.

What was the subsidiary alliance?

Name two Indian States brought under the British control using the Subsidiary Alliance.

Explain the term doctrine of lapse.

Name the two states annexed by the British using the Doctrine of Lapse.

Who was Nana Saheb?

What was Nana Saheb's main grievance against the British?

Which policy was used by Lord Dalhousie against Rani Laxmi Bai?

Why did Rani Laxmi Bai become a bitter enemy of the British?

State two announcements which adversely affected the Mughal dynasty in India.

Mention any two consequences of the annexation of Awadh.

State any two consequences of the disbanding of the armies of the annexed States by the British.

Give the meaning of Absentee Sovereignty.

Why was absentee sovereignty resented by the Indians?

What were the apprehensions of Indians about the introduction of the railways?

Mention any two social reforms advocated by the British which affected the religious traditions of the Indian people.

Mention any two measures which point to the policy of social discrimination followed by the British in India.

Give two examples to show how the British exploited the resources of India.

Give any two grievances of the peasantry against the British.

What did the British do to reduce the landed aristocracy to poverty?

What was the provision of the General Service Enlistment Act which was resented by the Indian soldiers? Why was it resented?

Mention any two measures which point to the policy of social discrimination followed by the British in India.

State two effects of the British defeat in the First Afghan War on the Indian soldiers.

State two effects of the Punjab defeat in the First Afghan War on the Indian soldiers.

What was the immediate cause of the First War of Independence?

Who was Mangal Pandey?

What did Mangal Pandey do?

State two consequences of the First War of Indian Independence on the East India Company.

How was the Army organised after the First War of Independence?

What impact did the uprising of 1857 have on the Mughal rule?

What impact did the Uprising of 1857 have on the Peshwaship?

Mention any two drawbacks of the First War of Independence.

Economic exploitation of the country produced discontent, resentment and resistance among the people that culminated in the Great Uprising of 1857.

1. The ruin of trade and handicrafts.
2. Impoverishment of the cultivators.
3. Subordination of Indian economy to British interests (making India an agricultural colony of British capitalism).

The Great Outbreak of 1857 brought about important changes in the character of Indian administration and the future development of the country In this context, discuss:

1. The changes introduced in the administrative set-up of the British territories in India.
2. The changes in the Army.
3. The changes in the relationship with the Princely States.

Although the First War of Independence of 1857 failed, it had important consequences for India. In this context, answer the following questions:

1. How did the Uprising give rise to nationalism in India?
2. How did the end of the East India Company's rule bring in grave economic perils in India?
3. State how the British Government tried to pacify the feelings of Indians with regard to:
   1. their religious practices.
   2. the Princely States.

Study the picture and answer the following questions:

1. Who are the persons in the picture? How were they treated by their British counterparts?
2. State any three grievances they had against the British.
3. What changes were brought in their status after the Uprising of 1857?

Study the picture and answer the following questions:

1. Identify the person in the picture. Name the proclamation made by her in 1858.
2. Where and by whom was this proclamation made public?
3. What assurance did this proclamation give to the Indian people regarding
   1. religious freedom and
   2. appointment to public offices?

Imagine you were present when the rulers of Indian states met at a common place before the Uprising of 1857. Each ruler voiced his grievance against the British. Make a list of the grievances of each of the rulers.

Imagine you were a Subedar in the army hailing from a landed family from Awadh. State the grievances your father had against the British.

There were uprisings against the British in every corner of the country in the nineteenth century. Make a list of the uprisings in your locality and the manner in which the imperialists dealt with them.