Meera, a history student, is studying the first weeks of the uprising of 1857 for a class project. Her notes show that in May and June 1857 the revolt spread from town to town, and that it followed much the same course in many different places. She has collected three kinds of material: a remark by a British officer on what happened to Company rule in those two months, accounts of how news of the rising reached distant army posts, and a Delhi Urdu Akhbar account of 14 June 1857 on daily life in the city. She now has to judge what each source tells her.
Which words did the British officer in Meera's material use for what happened to British rule in those two months?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → It collapsed like a house made of cards.
In May and June 1857 the British had no answer to the rebels, and one officer wrote that British rule collapsed like a house made of cards.
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