REBELS AND THE RAJ Flashcards
TERM BELL OF ARMS MEANS?
IT IS A STOREROOM IN WHICH WEAPONS ARE KEPT.
TERM KUNJRAS IN HISTORY OF MODERN INDIA WAS USED FOR?
VEGETABLE GROWERS.
WHICH CAVALRY REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE NEW CARTRIDGES IN EARLY MAY THEY WROTE TO WHICH INFANTRY THAT THEY HAD ACTED FOR THE FAITH AND AWAITED THEIR ORDERS?
7th AWADH IRREGULAR CAVALRY HAD REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE NEW CARTRIDGES IN EARLY MAY, THEY WROTE TO 48th NATIVE INFANTRY THAT THEY HAD ACTED FOR THE FAITH AND AWAITED THE 48th’s ORDERS.
Captain Hearsey of the Awadh Military Police had been given protection by his Indian subordinates during the mutiny. The_____ Native Infantry, which was stationed in the same place, insisted that since they had killed all their white officers, the Military Police should also kill Hearsey or deliver him as prisoner to the ____. The Military Police refused to do either, and it was decided that the matter would be settled by a
panchayat composed of native officers drawn from each regiment. Charles Ball, who wrote one of the
earliest histories of the uprising, noted that panchayats were a nightly occurrence in the Kanpur sepoy lines.
41st.
Local leaders in 1857 revolt?
- Shah Mal mobilized the villagers of the pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh.
- Gonoo, a tribal cultivator of Singhbhum in Chotanagpur, became a rebel leader of the kol tribals of the region.
Shal Mal’s role in 1857 revolt?
- Shah Mal mobilised the headmen and cultivators of chaurasee des, moving at night from village to village, urging people to rebel against the British.
- Shah Mal’s men attacked government buildings, destroyed the bridge over the river, and dug up metalled roads - partly to prevent government forces from coming into the area, and partly because bridges and roads were seen as symbols of British rule.
- They sent supplies to the sepoys who had mutinied in Delhi and stopped all official communication between British headquarters and Meerut.
- Locally acknowledged as the Raja, Shah Mal took over the bungalow of an English officer, turned it into a “hall of justice’ settling disputes and dispensing judgments.
- He also set up an amazingly effective network of intelligence.
- Shah Mal was killed in battle in July 1857.
Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah role in revolt of 1857?
- In 1856, he was seen moving from village to village preaching jehad (religious war) against the British and urging people to rebel.
- He was popularly known as Danka Shah- the maulvi with the drum (danka).
- When he reached in Lucknow in 1856, he was stopped by the police from preaching in the city.
- In 1857, he was jailed in Faizabad, when released, he was elected by the mutinous 22nd Native Infantry as their leader.
- He fought in the famous Battle of Chinhat (30 June, 1857) in which the British forces under Henry Lawrence were defeated.
Under the leadership of Governor General Lord ________, the British adopted policies aimed at reforming” Indian society by introducing Western education, Western ideas and Western institutions.
William Bentinck.
Which governor General tried to modernise the equipment of the army?
Henry Hardinge, as Governor General, attempted to modernise the
equipment of the army. The Enfield rifles that were introduced initially used the greased cartridges the sepoys rebelled against.
Subsidiary Alliance was devised by?
Lord Wellesley in 1798.
Terms and conditions of subsidiary alliance?
All those who entered into such an alliance with the British had to accept certain terms and conditions:
1. The Indian ruler could not employ any European in his service without the prior consultation with the company.
2. In the territory of the ally, a British armed contingent would be stationed.
3. The ally would have to provide the resources for maintaining this contingent.
4. The ally could enter into agreements with other rulers or engage in warfare only with the permission of the British.
5. In return for all this, the British would be responsible for protecting their ally from external and internal threats to their power and adopt a policy of non interference in the internal matters of the allied state.
Term Resident in history of modern India was used for?
Resident was the designation of a representative of the Governor General who lived in a state which was not under direct British rule.
Why British was interested in acquiring the territory of Awadh?
- Soil there was good for producing indigo and cotton.
- Ideal location for developing the principal market of upper India.
- By early 1850s, moreover, all the major areas of India has been conquered: the Maratha lands, the Doab, the Carnatic, the Punjab and Bengal. The takeover of Awadh in 1856 was expected to complete a process of territorial annexation that had begun with the conquest of Bengal almost a century earlier.
Effect of annexation of Awadh on taluqdars?
- It displaced not just the Nawab. It also dispossessed the taluqdars of the region.
- Before the coming of the British, taluqdars maintained armed retainers, built forts, and enjoyed a degree of autonomy, as long as they accepted the suzerainty of the Nawab and paid the revenue of their taluqs. Immediately after the annexation, the taluqdars were disarmed and their courts destroyed.
- The British land revenue policy further undermined the position and authority of the taluqdars.
What was the Summary Settlement and how did it effected taluqdars?
- After annexation of Awadh, the first British revenue settlement known as the Summary Settlement of 1856, was based on the assumption that the taluqdars were interlopers with no permanent stakes In land: they had established their hold over land through force and fraud.
- The Summary Settlement proceeded to remove the taluqdars wherever possible.
- Figures show that in pre-British times, taluqdars had held 67 per cent of the total number of villages in Awadh: by the Summary Settlement this number had come down to 38 per cent.
- The taluqdars of southern Awadh were the hardest hit and some lost more than half of the total number of villages they had previously held.
