Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Rebels and the Raj

Question:

Find out the name of Awadh as called in North India during 1840s-1850s:

Options:

A Cherry

Cradle of Civilisation

Nursery of Bengal Army

Jan-i-Alam

Correct Answer:

Nursery of Bengal Army

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Nursery of Bengal Army

Awadh was called the "Nursery of the Bengal Army" in 1857.

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’’.