Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Revolt of 1857
- Political Factors
- Nana Sahib forced to move from Poona to Kanpur
- Bahadur Shah Zafar forced out of Red Fort, the seat of
the Mughals for centuries
- Zafar's successors banned from using "Emperor" by Lord Canning
- Economic Factors
- Harsh land revenue policies
- India's wealth extracted to finance colonial
expansion and Industrial Revolution
- Collapse of Indian handicrafts
- Social Factors
- Indians not allowed to high positions
in administration and army
- Racial discrimination against locals
- British policies regarded with
deep suspicion by orthodox
Indians
- Religious Factors
- Apprehension of locals towards
forcible conversion to Christianity
- Taxes imposed on temples and
mosques
- Traditional roles of pandits and maulvis decline due
to Western education
- Military Factors
- Sepoys ill-treated by British officers
- Hindu soldiers skeptical of
caste loss after 1816 law