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(A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)- (II) (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)- (III) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)- (I) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)- (II) |
(A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)- (II) |
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. Ahmadullah Shah was one of the Maulavi who played an important role in the 1857 uprising. He was elected as Leader of the 22nd Native Infantry. He fought in the famous battle of Chinhat in which the British forces under Henry Lawrence were defeated. . 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. |
