Read the passage and answer the questions:
The sepoys began their action with a signal; in many places it was the firing of the evening gun or the sounding of the bugle. They first seized the bell of arms and plundered the treasury. They then attacked the government buildings – the jail, treasury, telegraph office, record room, bungalows – burning all records. The mutiny in the sepoy ranks quickly became a rebellion.
Match List I with List II:
| List I | List II | ||
| (A) | Relief of Lucknow | (I) | Joseph Noel Paton |
| (B) | Execution of Mutineers in Peshawar | (II) | Illustrated London News |
| (C) | In Memoriam | (III) | Punch |
| (D) | The Clemency of Canning | (IV) | Thomas Jones Barker |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III
(A) Relief of Lucknow — this matches (IV) Thomas Jones Barker. “Relief of Lucknow”, painted by Thomas Jones Barker in 1859, commemorates the British heroes who saved the English and repressed the rebels.
(B) Execution of Mutineers in Peshawar — this matches (II) Illustrated London News. Images of the executions of rebel sepoys at Peshawar were published in the Illustrated London News of 3 October 1857; they were meant to show the terror of British power.
(C) In Memoriam — this matches (I) Joseph Noel Paton. “In Memoriam” was painted by Joseph Noel Paton two years after the mutiny; it shows English women and children huddled in a circle, waiting helplessly for the attack.
(D) The Clemency of Canning — this matches (III) Punch. When Canning pleaded for mercy towards the sepoys, he was mocked in a cartoon in Punch, a British journal of comic satire, which showed him as a looming father figure protecting a sepoy with bloody weapons.
NCERT (2026-27): “5.1 Celebrating the saviours … Some of them commemorate the British heroes who saved the English and repressed the rebels. ‘Relief of Lucknow’, painted by Thomas Jones Barker in 1859, is an example of this type.… 5.2 English women and the honour of Britain … Artists expressed as well as shaped these sentiments through their visual representations of trauma and suffering. ‘In Memoriam’ (Fig. 10.11) was painted by Joseph Noel Paton two years after the mutiny.… 5.5 No time for clemency … When Governor General Canning declared that a gesture of leniency and a show of mercy would help in winning back the loyalty of the sepoys, he was mocked in the British press. In one of the cartoons published in the pages of Punch, a British journal of comic satire, Canning is shown as a looming father figure, with his protective hand over the head of a sepoy who still holds an unsheathed sword in one hand and a dagger in the other, both dripping with blood (Fig.10.17) – an imagery that recurs in a number of British pictures of the time.…”
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