Consider the following statements about the sources for the revolt of 1857:
(A) Official accounts of the revolt abound, left by colonial administrators and military men.
(B) Memos, notes and reports help us gauge the official mindset and changing British attitudes.
(C) Historians till now have discussed rebel actions primarily through accounts written by the rebels.
(D) Many of these official memos and reports have been collected in a set of volumes on mutiny records.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A, B and D only
(A) Official accounts of the revolt abound, left by colonial administrators and military men. — Correct. Official accounts are plentiful. Administrators and military men left letters, diaries, autobiographies and official histories.
(B) Memos, notes and reports help us gauge the official mindset and changing British attitudes. — Correct. The innumerable memos, notes, assessments and reports show the official mindset and the changing British attitudes.
(C) Historians till now have discussed rebel actions primarily through accounts written by the rebels. — Incorrect. Records from the rebels' side are very few. So historians still discuss rebel actions primarily through accounts written by the British.
(D) Many of these official memos and reports have been collected in a set of volumes on mutiny records. — Correct. Many of these official papers have now been collected in a set of volumes on mutiny records.
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