Which of the following statements are correct?

(A) Bell of arms was a store room in which weapons were kept.
(B) The army of Awadh supported the British.
(C) Firangi is a term of Persian origin applied to the British by the rebels.
(D) The 7^th Awadh Irregular Cavalry accepted the new cartridges in early May.
(E) Local leaders emerged, urging peasants, zamindars and tribals to revolt.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (C) and (E) only

The correct answer is Option (3) - (A), (C) and (E) only

The correct statements are:

(A) Bell of arms was a store room in which weapons were kept.
(C) Firangi is a term of Persian origin applied to the British by the rebels.
(E) Local leaders emerged, urging peasants, zamindars and tribals to revolt.

The incorrect statements are:

(B) The army of Awadh supported the British.
(D) The 7^th Awadh Irregular Cavalry accepted the new cartridges in early May.

Let us discuss each statement one by one:

Statement (A)- Bell of arms was a store room in which weapons were kept - CORRECT

Statement  (B)- The army of Awadh supported the British- INCORRECT

The army of Awadh did not support the British.

Statement (C)- Firangi is a term of Persian origin applied to the British by the rebels - CORRECT

Firangi, a term of Persian origin, possibly derived from Frank (from which France gets its name), is used in Urdu and Hindi, often in a derogatory sense, to designate foreigners. The proclamations released around 1857 completely rejected everything associated with British rule or firangi raj as they called it. They condemned the British for the annexations they had carried out and the treaties they had broken. The British, the rebel leaders said, could not be trusted.

Statement (D)- The 7^th Awadh Irregular Cavalry accepted the new cartridges in early May - INCORRECT

The reason for the similarity in the pattern of the revolt in 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”.

Statement (E)- Local leaders emerged, urging peasants, zamindars and tribals to revolt - CORRECT

In Kanpur, the sepoys and the people of the town gave Nana Sahib, the successor to Peshwa Baji Rao II, no choice save to join the revolt as their leader. 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. Elsewhere, local leaders emerged, urging peasants, zamindars and tribals to revolt. Shah Mal mobilised the villagers of pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh; Gonoo, a tribal cultivator of Singhbhum in Chotanagpur, became a rebel leader of the Kol tribals of the region.