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Chiefs who are with us in faith and religion, are still so, and have undergone all sorts of trouble; we have fought for two years in order that our... |
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the villages they burnt account books and ransacked moneylenders’ houses. This reflected an attempt to overturn traditional hierarchies, rebel agai... |
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from all accounts that we have of 1857 Villagers as rebels that the British did not have an easy time in putting down the rebellion. An officer rep... |
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ART III attempts to recover Delhi began in earnest in early June 1857 but it was only in late September that the city was finally captured. The fig... |
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strewn on the ground are meant to be a cold warning of the futility of rebellion. Reprint 2026-27 R EBELS AND THE R AJ 277 5. Images of the Revolt ... |
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is an example of this type. When the rebel forces besieged Lucknow, Henry Lawrence, the Commissioner of Lucknow, collected the Christian population... |
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and children, there were public demands in Britain for revenge and retribution. The British government was asked to protect the honour of innocent ... |
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revolt created a milieu in which violent repression and vengeance were seen as both necessary and just. It was as if justice demanded that the chal... |
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Mounted soldiers and sepoys in uniform dominate the scene. They have to watch the execution of their fellow sepoys, and experience the chilling con... |
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was woven around the revolt. It was celebrated as the First War of Independence in which all sections of the people of India came together to fight... |
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most brutal forms of repression of the rebels. On the other hand, nationalist imageries of the revolt helped shape the nationalist imagination. Dis... |
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about the revolt of 1857? How do historians analyse these representations? 9. Examine any two sources presented in the chapter, choosing one visual... |
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286 T HEMES IN INDIAN H ISTORY – P ART III Mahatma Gandhi and THEME the Nationalist Movement ELEVEN Civil Disobedience and Be y ond In the history ... |
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in that territory. As the historian Chandran Devanesan has remarked, South Africa was “the making of the Mahatma”. It was in South Africa that Maha... |
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donations had contributed to the founding of the BHU. Also present were important leaders of the Congress, such as Annie Besant. Compared to these ... |
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– the first public announcement of Gandhiji’s own desire to make Indian nationalism more properly Reprint 2026-27 M AHATMA G ANDHI AND THE NATIONAL... |
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North and West India, life came to a standstill, as shops shut down and schools closed in response to the bandh call. The protests were particularl... |
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Movement? run by the government. Lawyers refused to attend court. The working class went on strike in many The Khilafat Movement, towns and cities:... |
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The craze is for what they call laboursaving machinery. Men go on “saving labour”, till thousands are without work and thrown on the open streets t... |
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Local newspapers in the United couple of minutes. Provinces recorded many of the rumours that circulated at that Wherever Gandhiji went, rumours sp... |
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became sesamum. and love of working with his hands allowed him to empathise more fully with the labouring poor and for contd them, in turn, to empa... |
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were some very prosperous businessmen and person did not keep his industrialists. Indian entrepreneurs were quick to promise. As soon as he recogni... |
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2026-27 M AHATMA GANDHI AND THE N ATIONALIST M OVEMENT 295 the abolition of untouchability. For, Gandhiji was as much a social reformer as he was a... |
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how the day should be observed. “It would be good,” he said, “if the declaration [of Independence] is made by whole villages, whole cities even ...... |
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Reprint 2026-27 M AHATMA G ANDHI AND THE N ATIONALIST M OVEMENT 297 Where most Indians understood the significance of Gandhiji’s challenge, the Bri... |
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