British India: Causes Of The Mutiny (Religion)

Question 1

What was common in the 18th century?

Answer 1

Intermarriage

Question 2

What was the East India companies original cultural policy?

Answer 2

Cultural neutrality

Question 3

What did liberalism believe?

Answer 3

Saw Indian culture as a barrier to economic growth

Question 4

What was the evangelical Christians opinion on Indian culture?

Answer 4

Missionaries sought to free the Indians from their “cruel” religion

Question 5

Who saw it as their aim to “convert the Sepoy to God”/”rescue them from eternal damnation”?

Answer 5

34th Infantry at Barrackpur

Question 6

What did the 34th Infantry at Barrackpur say?

Answer 6

“Convert the Sepoy to God”

“Rescue them from eternal damnation”

Question 7

What three customs upset the British missionaries and modernisers?

Answer 7

Female infanticide
Thai
Sati

Question 8

What was the impact of:
Female infanticide
Thagi
Sati

Answer 8

Upset British missionaries and modernisers

Question 9

Which Indian tradition did the victorians hate the most?

Answer 9

Sati

Question 10

Where was female infanticide most common?

Answer 10

North- Western India

Question 11

What was common in North-Western India?

Answer 11

Female infanticide

Question 12

What was female infanticide?

Answer 12

Killing of newborn female children

Question 13

What practice involved the murder of newborn female children?

Answer 13

Female infanticide

Question 14

What was thagi?

Answer 14

Cult of assassin priests

Question 15

What were the cult of assassin priests?

Answer 15

Thagi

Question 16

What did Thagi do?

Answer 16

Strangle unwary travellers on Indian roads

Question 17

Who strangled unwary travellers on Indian roads

Answer 17

Thagi

Question 18

What tradition did the Victorians hate the most?

Answer 18

Sati

Question 19

What was Sati?

Answer 19

Act in which a Hindu widow was burned alive on her husband’s funeral pyre

Question 20

What was the name of the Act in which a Hindu widow was burned alive on her husband’s funeral pyre?

Answer 20

Sati

Question 21

In the practice of Sati, where was the widow burned?

Answer 21

Husbands funeral pyre

Question 22

What was the impact of some of the evangelical missionaries sentiment?

Answer 22

Alarmed both Muslims and Hindus

Question 23

What did the Muslims (ulama) or scholastic believe about the British

Answer 23

Islam was in danger from the fanatical Farangi (Protestant Franks)

Question 24

Who believed that Islam was in danger from the fanatical Farangi (Protestant Franks)?

Answer 24

Muslims (ulama)

Question 25

What was introduced in July 1856?

Answer 25

Hindu widows remarriage act that allowed widows to be remarried

Question 26

When was the Hindu widows remarriage act?

Answer 26

July 1856