Read the passage answer the questions :
The reason for the similarity in the pattern of the revolt in the different places lay partly in its planning and coordination. It is clear that there was communication between the sepoy lines of various cantonments. After the 7th Awadh Irregular Cavalry had refused to accept the new cartridges in early May, they wrote to the 48th Native Infantry that “they had acted for the faith and awaited the 48th’s orders”. Sepoys or their emissaries moved from one station to another. People were thus planning and talking about the rebellion.
Who was the Captain of Awadh Military Police?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Captain Hearsey
The passage talks about the planning and coordination of the revolt and the communication between the sepoy lines. One incident gives a clue to how the mutinies were organised: Captain Hearsey of the Awadh Military Police had been given protection by his Indian subordinates during the mutiny, and when the 41st Native Infantry demanded that he be killed or handed over, the matter was left to a panchayat of native officers drawn from each regiment.
Hence, the answer is Captain Hearsey.
NCERT (2026-27): “1.2 Lines of communication … But one incident provides clues as to how the mutinies came to be so organised. Captain Hearsey of the Awadh Military Police had been given protection by his Indian subordinates during the mutiny. The 41st Native Infantry, which was stationed in the same place, insisted that since they had killed all their white officers, the Military Police should also kill Hearsey or deliver him as prisoner to the 41st. The Military Police refused to do either, and it was decided that the matter would be settled by a panchayat composed of native officers drawn from each regiment. Charles Ball, who wrote one of the earliest histories of the uprising, noted that panchayats were a nightly occurrence in the Kanpur sepoy lines. What this suggests is that some of the decisions were taken collectively.…” |