Match the List – I of authors with List – II of the books on 1857 and choose answers from the code given below :List – I List – II a. V. D. Savarkar i. The First War of Independence b. S. N. Sen ii. The Peasant and tde Raj c. Eric Stokes iii. Civil Rebellion and in the Indian Mutinies d. S. B. Chaudhuri iv. Eighteen Fifty-Seven
a – i, b – iv, c – ii, d – iii
The correct matching is a – i, b – iv, c – ii, d – iii, option 3.
| Author | Book | Position taken |
|---|---|---|
| V. D. Savarkar | The First War of Independence, 1909 | 1857 was a planned national war for swaraj and swadharma; written in London and proscribed before publication |
| S. N. Sen | Eighteen Fifty-Seven, 1957 | The official history commissioned for the centenary; it began as a mutiny and became in places a war of independence |
| Eric Stokes | The Peasant and the Raj, 1978 | A social historian’s account, tracing the rising to agrarian conditions and to the impact of the revenue settlements on particular groups of peasants |
| S. B. Chaudhuri | Civil Rebellion in the Indian Mutinies, 1957 | Argued that the civil rebellion, of peasants and dispossessed gentry, was the substantial part of 1857, and the sepoy mutiny only its occasion |
How to solve it. One pairing is certain: Savarkar wrote The First War of Independence, which fixes a – i, and only option 3 has it. The rest follows without further work, though the titles themselves are suggestive — Stokes was a historian of the peasantry, and Chaudhuri’s title names the mutinies explicitly.
Why the historiography is worth knowing. The four books stand for four ways of reading the same events — nationalist, official, agrarian-social, and the reading that puts the civilian rebellion first. Add to them R. C. Majumdar, who denied that it was first, national or a war of independence at all, and the whole debate is covered. Examiners return to it because it shows that a historical event is not a fixed thing but a subject of continuing argument.
The Bihar connection : Chaudhuri’s emphasis on civil rebellion fits Bihar particularly well, where Kunwar Singh — an aged zamindar of Jagdishpur, not a sepoy — led the rising.
Hence, the answer is a – i, b – iv, c – ii, d – iii.
Similar Questions
Who first described the Revolt of 1857 as the ‘First Indian War of Independence’ ?
Match List – I of leaders with List – II of their territory and select answer from the code given below :
List – I List – II a. Kunwar Singh i. Faizabad b. Hazrat Mahal ii. Bareilly c. Khan Bahadur iii. Jagdishpur d. Maulvi Ahmadullah iv. Lucknow
Important Questions from The Great Revolt of 1857
Who was crowned as the “King of Awadh” by the rebels of 1857?
Match List - I and List - II with the assistance of codes given below :
List - I
(Leaders of 1857)List - II
(Places)1. Bakht Khan a. Kanpur 2. Nana Sahab b. Awadh 3. Ahmadullah Shah c. Arrah 4. Kunwar Singh d. Delhi __________ , popularly known as ‘Ali Gauhar’, was defeated in the Battle of Buxar.
With reference to the extent and intensity of the Revolt of 1857, which one of the following statements is correct?
I. The Revolt of 1857 spread mainly in northern India.
II. The revolt of the soldiers was followed by popular uprisings of the civilian population.
Who among the following did not help the British during the Revolt of 1857?
