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For long, the Revolt of 1857, has been mistaken to be a mere mutiny of the Indian sepoys in the Bengal army. However, its causes need to be searched for not only in the dissatisfaction of the army, but in a long drawn process of fundamental social and economic change that upset the peasant communities. Discuss.

  • UPSC 2020
  • Indian Response to British Rule

The Revolt of 1857 is misread if reduced to a narrow "Sepoy Mutiny," since the greased cartridge affair was merely the spark that ignited grievances accumulated over a century of British economic and social intervention.

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  • Military Dissatisfaction: A Real but Partial Cause
  • The Deeper Economic Transformation of the Peasantry
  • The Dispossession of the Landed and Aristocratic Classes
  • Social and Religious Anxiety as Reinforcing Pressure
  • Reading the Revolt as a Composite Upheaval

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