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The British rule had differential impact on the Indian society. Describe in what ways the Indians responded to the Revolt of 1857.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Indian Response to British Rule

Because colonial rule had struck different social groups with unequal force by 1857, the Revolt of 1857 produced not one uniform "Indian response" but a spectrum ranging from armed insurrection to active loyalism, patterned closely along lines of class, region and prior relationship to British power.

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  • The Urban Educated Middle Class: Aloofness and Loyalism
  • Princes: A Deliberately Mixed Response
  • Regional Variation as the Clearest Marker of Differential Impact

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