Match List I with List II.

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(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

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Shah Mal mobilised the villagers of pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh in the revolt of 1857. Shah Mal lived in a large village in pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh. He belonged to a clan of Jat cultivators whose kinship ties extended over chaurasee des (eighty-four villages)

Gonoo, a tribal cultivator of Singhbhum in Chotanagpur, became a rebel leader of the Kol tribals of the region in the revolt of 1857.

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.

Bahadur Shah Zafar was the ruler of Delhi, during the 1857 rebellion. The Mughal Emperor was forced to give his assent to the mutiny as he had no other option left. In May 1857 Bahadur Shah Zafar accepted nominal leadership of mutiny in Delhi.