In Lucknow after annexation: Step 1: The Nawab is removed. Step 2: (left out). Step 3: Musicians, dancers, poets, cooks and retainers lose their livelihood. What is Step 2?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → The court and its culture are dissolved
Option (1) The Nawab's military force is disbanded — Incorrect. The Nawab's army had been disbanded under the Subsidiary Alliance of 1801. That loss did not cost the court musicians, poets and cooks their work.
Option (2) The taluqdars are disarmed and their forts destroyed — Incorrect. Taluqdars losing their forts hurt the landed chiefs. It had no link with the court's musicians, poets and cooks.
Option (3) The court and its culture are dissolved — Correct. With the Nawab gone, the court and its culture broke up. The people who lived by serving the court then lost their livelihood. These material losses added to the grief over his exile.
Option (4) British troops take charge of law and order in the kingdom — Incorrect. The Nawab came to depend on British troops for law and order soon after his army was disbanded in 1801. This had happened decades before his removal.
NCERT (2026-27): “2.2 “The life was gone out of the body” “This emotional upheaval was aggravated by immediate material losses. The removal of the Nawab led to the dissolution of the court and its culture. Thus a whole range of people – musicians, dancers, poets, artisans, cooks, retainers, administrative officials and so on – lost their livelihood.” |