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“The Revolt of 1857 seemed to call the very presence of the British into question. What it did not do was reverse these changes.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2007
  • Indian Response to British Rule

The Revolt of 1857 was, at its high-water mark, the single most serious armed challenge to British sovereignty in the subcontinent, yet its ultimate outcome was not the undoing of colonial rule but its consolidation on firmer ground.

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  • How 1857 Called British Presence Into Question
  • The Changes That Provoked the Revolt
  • What the Revolt Failed to Undo
  • Interpreting the Paradox

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