Choose the correct statements regarding the Revolt of 1857 among the following:
(A) Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was deposed from Awadh.
(B) Mutiny started from Delhi.
(C) British suffer defeat in the battle of Chinhat.
(D) Rani Jhansi led the revolt from Bihar.
(E) Kunwar Singh led the revolt from Lucknow.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A), (C) Only
(A) Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was deposed from Awadh. Correct. In Awadh, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was dethroned and exiled to Calcutta on the plea that the region was being misgoverned, and the state was annexed in 1856.
(B) Mutiny started from Delhi. Incorrect. The mutiny began late in the afternoon of 10 May 1857 in the cantonment of Meerut; the sepoys rode to Delhi only after that.
(C) British suffer defeat in the battle of Chinhat. Correct. Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah fought in the famous Battle of Chinhat, in which the British forces under Henry Lawrence were defeated.
(D) Rani Jhansi led the revolt from Bihar. Incorrect. The rani led the uprising in Jhansi, where popular pressure forced her to take up its leadership.
(E) Kunwar Singh led the revolt from Lucknow. Incorrect. Kunwar Singh was a local zamindar in Arrah in Bihar. In Lucknow the people hailed Birjis Qadr, the young son of the Nawab, as their leader.
NCERT (2026-27): “Late in the afternoon of 10 May 1857, the sepoys in the cantonment of Meerut broke out in mutiny. It began in the lines of the native infantry, spread very swiftly to the cavalry and then to the city. The ordinary people of the town and surrounding villages joined the sepoys.… …In Jhansi, the rani was forced by the popular pressure around her to assume the leadership of the uprising. So was Kunwar Singh, a local zamindar in Arrah in Bihar. In Awadh, where the displacement of the popular Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and the annexation of the state were still very fresh in the memory of the people, the populace in Lucknow celebrated the fall of British rule by hailing Birjis Qadr, the young son of the Nawab, as their leader.… 2.2 ‘The life was gone out of the body’ … Lord Dalhousie’s annexations created disaffection in all the areas and principalities that were annexed but nowhere more so than in the kingdom of Awadh in the heart of North India. Here, Nawab Wajid Ali Shah was dethroned and exiled to Calcutta on the plea that the region was being misgoverned.…”
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