Find out the name of Awadh as called in North India during 1840s-1850s:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Nursery of Bengal Army
The large majority of the sepoys of the Bengal Army were recruited from the villages of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh, and so Awadh was called the “nursery of the Bengal Army”.
NCERT (2026-27): “2.3 Firangi raj and the end of a world … It is also important to remember that close links existed between the sepoys and the rural world of North India. The large majority of the sepoys of the Bengal Army were recruited from the villages of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh. Many of them were Brahmins or from the ‘upper’ castes. Awadh was, in fact, called the ‘nursery of the Bengal Army’’.…” |