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HISTORY

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SUBMITTED BY: SHIVANSH SHUBHAM

ROLL NO.: A027

CLASS: DIV. A

TOPIC: REVOLT OF 1857

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1 ABSTRACT
2 INTRODUCTION
3 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES
4 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
5 RESEARCH GAP
6 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
7 CONTENT
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10 CRITICISM
11 CONCLUSIONS
12 BIBLIOGRAPHY
 ABSTRACT

The 1857 war was a watershed moment in Indian subcontinent history. The conflict has
provoked debate among historians and social scientists all around the world. Despite the fact
that the battle has been going on for almost 150 years, historians are still interested in it. The
reasons for the war, events that occurred during the war, people who backed and opposed the
British, as well as the outcomes and consequences, are all elements of this conflict. Many
scholars believe that in terms of outcomes, the war was a failure for those who started it. The
Indians who fought the British in this struggle are commonly thought to have failed to
achieve their objectives. The struggle brought many benefits to Indians, but the debate about
the war's failure has obscured these accomplishments. The success of the battle for India, as
well as the significance of those triumphs, are the subject of this research project.
 INTRODUCTION

Throughout the second half of the nineteenth century, people from native colonies battled for
independence from their masters in many parts of the world. Other empires, such as the
French, Spanish, and Dutch, were in decline while the British Empire was at its height, with
the greatest imprint on the planet. The Sepoy Mutiny (also known as the Indian Revolt of
1857) was a watershed event that not only rocked the British Empire to its core, but also
aroused a major international response. This historic event became one of the first global
media events as knowledge of it travelled around the globe. Despite the fact that the 1857
Indian Revolt has faded from memory throughout the world, records of it may still be found
in these nations' archives, literature, poetry, and novels. The Uprising of 1857 has been
carefully explored by numerous Indians, British, and other historians in terms of its domestic
component, i.e. the causes for revolt, the actual conduct of several battles, and other
significant factual concerns. However, the international dimension of the 1857 Indian Revolt,
as well as how the revolt's actions were portrayed in the foreign press, has yet to be fully
researched and written about. The goal of this paper is to look at how people throughout the
world reacted to this watershed moment in Indian history. The British controlled India from
1757 until 1857, a period defined by imperialist and economic exploitation of Indians, as well
as disruption of their social and religious systems. The British, assuming they had a
comprehensive knowledge of the Indian intellect and requirements, exploited them for far too
long, resulting in the Indians' revolt. The Indian Revolt of 1857, which took place exactly one
hundred years after the Battle of Plassey, posed a real and genuine challenge to the British
and threatened to overthrow them.
RESEARCH OBJECTIVES