India Chapter 1, Part 2 Indian Mutiny 1857

Question 1

What was the 1st cause of the Indian Mutiny in 1857?

Answer 1

Annexation:
Forced but peaceful conquest of territoty of Indian states when the ruler died without an heir

Question 2

What was the 2nd Cause of the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 2

Brahmin opposition to railways:

Because of the possibilies for religios pollution by coming into contact with the Untouchables

Question 3

What was the 3rd Cause of the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 3

Brahmin sepoy (Indian soldier) opposition to deployments outside their home region and overseas which they regared as disrespectful

Question 4

What was the 4th Cause of the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 4

The Rumour that ammunition cartridges issuesby the British to sepoys for their rifles had been greased with either beef fat (sacred to Hindus) or pork fat (prohibited by Islam)

Question 5

Name 1 key event in the Mutiny?

Answer 5

85 sepoys were court-maritalled for refusing to use the cartridges

They were freed by mutineers who on the same night massared all local Europeans including women and children.

Question 6

Name a 2nd key event in the mutiny

Answer 6

The mutiny spread throughout the Benegal Army of Northern India and the entire Gangetic plain fell out of British control.

The mutineers marched on Delhi and made the 82-year old Mughal ‘emperor’ the ruler of India

Question 7

Name a 3rd key event in the mutiny

Answer 7

In the town of Cawnpore, 400 British men, women and children surrendered and were offered safe passage on boats.

On their way to the boats, they were massacred.

Question 8

Name 1 consequence of the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 8

British reprisals, deliberately designed to strike terror into the peasant population.

Entire villages were massacred by the British; thousands were bayoneted by the British.

Mutineers and others were forced to try to lick clean the blood-stained buildings, before being made to eat pork and beef and then publicly hanged.

Question 9

Name a 2nd Consequence of the Indian Mutiny?

Answer 9

The British were determined to bring the administration of India under closer government control.

The fear of repeating this apparent mistake was to have even more devasting consequences in the Amritsar Massacre in 1919.