Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Causes of 1857 Revolt
- Political causes
- Policy of expansion
- Annexation of Awadh
- Disrespect shown towards Bahadur Shah
- Treatment towards Laxmi Bai and Nana Saheb
- Absentee Sovereignty of the British
- Socio-Religious causes
- Interference in religious customs
- Inventions
- Racial Discrimination
- Corruption in administration
- Missionaries and Western education
- Taxation of Religious places
- Economic causes
- Exploitation of resources
- Drain of wealth
- Decay of industries
- Economic decline of peasantery
- Growing Unemployment
- Inhuman conditions for Indigo cultivators
- Decline of land and aristocracy
- Poverty and Famine
- Military Causes
- Ill-treatment to Indian soldiers
- Numerical strength of Indian soldiers
- Deprivation of alliances
- Faulty distribution of troops
- Immediate cause-greased rifles