In many villages in 1857 the rebels burnt account books and ransacked…

The correct answer is Option (2) → An attempt to overturn traditional hierarchies and rebel against all oppressors

Option (1) An attempt to unify all social groups in the fight against firangi raj — Incorrect. Unity of all social groups was the aim of the proclamations. Attacks on moneylenders divided village society instead.

Option (2) An attempt to overturn traditional hierarchies and rebel against all oppressors — Correct. Burning account books struck at those who held power in the village. It showed an attempt to overturn traditional hierarchies.

Option (3) A plan to restore the eighteenth-century Mughal system of land revenue — Incorrect. Rebel courts did arrange land revenue collection in the Mughal manner, but that was the work of rebel courts in places like Delhi, Lucknow and Kanpur.

Option (4) The fear that the British would convert Hindus and Muslims to Christianity — Incorrect. The fear of conversion to Christianity was spread by the proclamations. It turned people against the British themselves.