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 7th 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:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A), (C) and (E) only
(A) Bell of arms was a store room in which weapons were kept. Correct. The bell of arms is a storeroom in which weapons are kept; at Meerut the sepoys captured it on 10 May 1857.
(B) The army of Awadh supported the British. Incorrect. Awadh was called the “nursery of the Bengal Army”, since most of its sepoys came from the villages of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh, and the fears and grievances of their families reached the sepoy lines. These sepoys rose against the British; the 7th Awadh Irregular Cavalry itself refused the new cartridges.
(C) Firangi is a term of Persian origin applied to the British by the rebels. Correct. Firangi is a term of Persian origin, possibly derived from Frank, used in Urdu and Hindi, often in a derogatory sense, for foreigners. The rebels’ proclamations rejected the firangi raj of the British.
(D) The 7th Awadh Irregular Cavalry accepted the new cartridges in early May. Incorrect. The 7th Awadh Irregular Cavalry refused to accept the new cartridges in early May and wrote to the 48th Native Infantry that “they had acted for the faith”.
(E) Local leaders emerged, urging peasants, zamindars and tribals to revolt. Correct. Besides the leaders of the courts, local leaders emerged, urging peasants, zamindars and tribals to revolt: Shah Mal mobilised the villagers of pargana Barout, and Gonoo led the Kol tribals of Singhbhum.
NCERT (2025-26): “1.1 How the mutinies began … Bell of arms is a storeroom in which weapons are kept. 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. 1.2 Lines of communication … 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’.… 1.3 Leaders and followers … 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. 2.3 Firangi raj and the end of a world … 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’’.…” |