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Examine the nature of the Revolt of 1857 and indicate the manifold changes in British civil and military administration of India after 1857.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Indian Response to British Rule

The Revolt of 1857 resists a single label — it was simultaneously a military mutiny, a civil rebellion, and a feudal restoration attempt, and its true character has to be assembled from all three rather than read off any one of them.

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  • The "Mere Mutiny" Thesis and Its Limits
  • The "First War of Independence" Thesis
  • The Feudal-Elitist and Rural Readings
  • A Composite Verdict
  • Manifold Changes in British Civil Administration after 1857
  • Manifold Changes in Military Administration after 1857

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