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‘The tribal and peasant rebellion laid the foundation of the revolt of 1857.’ Comment.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Indian Response to British Rule

The half-century of scattered tribal and peasant uprisings that preceded 1857 did not cause the Great Revolt directly, but they built the wider climate of agrarian grievance, established traditions of open defiance, and revealed to the British the depth of rural discontent that made 1857 possible.

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  • The Pre-1857 Tradition of Tribal and Peasant Resistance
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