UPPCS GS-I · 8 marks · 125 words
The Revolt of 1857 in Awadh had a distinctly agrarian character. Examine.
अवध में 1857 के विद्रोह का स्वरूप स्पष्टतः कृषक-प्रधान था। परीक्षण कीजिए।
What “Examine” demands
investigate the issue closely — how it arose, how it works, what it achieves and where it falls short — looking at both sides.
The characteristic failure: description of what the thing is, with no probing of how well it works.
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- Summary Settlement 1856 dispossessed taluqdars — ~14,000 villages changed hands
- Annexation under Doctrine of Lapse pretext (misgovernance) and disbanding of Awadh army
- Peasant-taluqdar joint resistance: Begum Hazrat Mahal, Birjis Qadr rallying rural Awadh
- Rudrangshu Mukherjee's study of Awadh 1857 as evidence of agrarian base
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