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  • Question 1
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    Which social reform was not welcomed by Indians?
    Solution
    Some of the social reforms introduced by the British in India were aimed at improving the conditions of the people. However, while introducing such reforms the feelings of the people were not taken into consideration. Like western education to girls was not welcomed by the masses.
  • Question 2
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    When was the Widow Remarriage Act introduced?
    Solution
    Some of the social reforms introduced by the British in India were aimed at improving the conditions of the people. However, while introducing such reforms the feelings of the people were not taken into consideration. Like Widow Remarriage Act, which was introduced in 1856 was not welcomed by the masses.
  • Question 3
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    When the Religious Disabilities Act was introduced?
    Solution
    The Religious Disabilities Act was introduced in 1850 which changed the Hindu Law of Property. It enabled a convert from Hinduism to other religion to inherit the property of his father. The Hindu regarded this as an incentive to give up one's religious faith.
  • Question 4
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    By the complex judicial system who got rights to oppress the poor?
    Solution
    The complex judicial system enabled the rich community to oppress the poor.  Flogging, torture and imprisonment of cultivators for their inability to pay arrears of rent, land revenue and interest on debt were quite common. Thus, the growing poverty made the poor desperate and led them to join a general uprising in the hopes of improving their lot.
  • Question 5
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    Which modern innovation was introduced by British before 1857?
    Solution
    The introduction of modern innovation such as railway, telegraphs and western education was introduced by British before 1857, but these all are misunderstood by the Indian people. There were rumous that the telegraph poles were erected to hang people who were against the British rule. Similarly, the orthodox Indian noted that in the railway compartments the higher castes and the lower castes were made to sit side by side.
  • Question 6
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    By which policy of British the religious sentiments of the Indian were hurted?
    Solution
    Religious sentiments of the Indians were hurt by the official policy of taxing lands belongings to temples and mosques. Such lands had been exempted from taxation by previous Indians rulers. The families dependent on these lands began to propagate that the British were trying to undermine the religions of India.
  • Question 7
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    Rani Laxmi Bai became the victim of ______.
    Solution
    When the ruler of Jhansi died in 1853, leaving no natural heir, the widowed Rani Laxmi Bai was pensioned and their adopted son, Anand Rao, was not recognised as a lawful successor to the throne under the Doctrine of Lapse. And Jhansi was annexed by British East India Company.
  • Question 8
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    The first sign of unrest appeared at _______.
    Solution

    The first signs of unrest appeared early in 1857 at Barrackpore and Berhampore in Bengal; they were, however, quickly suppressed and the culprits were punished, But the Sepoys broke out into open revolt at Meerut on the 10th May 1857, swarmed into the prisons, released their imprisoned comrades, murdered a few European officers and burnt their houses.

  • Question 9
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    The British government had ordered that successors of the last Mughal Emperor _____ had to give up their ancestral palace and Red Fort on his death.
    Solution
    The British government had ordered that successors of the last Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah II had to give up their ancestral palace and Red Fort on his death.
  • Question 10
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    The main political cause for the great revolt of 1857 was __________.
    Solution
    The main political cause for the great revolt of 1857 was the policy of Doctrine of Lapse. It was an annexation policy purportedly used by Lord Dalhousie as per which any princely state or territory under the British East India Company would automatically be annexed if the ruler died without a male heir. 
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