The Vellore Mutiny, the first large mutiny of the Company's Indian sepoys, broke out in which year?
- A.1801
- B.1806
- C.1824
- D.1844
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, 1806. The Vellore Mutiny broke out on 10 July 1806 when sepoys of the Madras army in Vellore fort turned on their officers. New dress regulations had banned caste marks, beards and earrings and required a turban with a leather cockade, and the men believed they were being prepared for conversion. The mutineers raised the flag of Tipu Sultan, whose family was then held in Vellore, before Colonel Gillespie rode from Arcot and crushed the rising. A is wrong because no mutiny of this scale occurred in 1801. C is wrong because 1824 is the year of the Barrackpore mutiny of the 47th Native Infantry and of the Kittur rebellion. D is wrong because 1844 is the year the 34th Native Infantry mutinied over the field allowance for Sindh.
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Practice Questions
View allBankim Chandra Chatterjee's novel Anandamath is based on which of the following uprisings?
- A.The Santhal Hul
- B.The Sanyasi Rebellion
- C.The Paika Rebellion
- D.The Kol Uprising
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Anandamath, published in 1882, draws on the rebellion of wandering monks and fakirs in Bengal and Bihar that ran from about 1763 to 1800, and the song Vande Mataram first appeared in this novel.
Read the full explanation →The Paika Rebellion of 1817 in Odisha was led by
- A.Bakshi Jagabandhu Bidyadhar
- B.Buddho Bhagat
- C.Durjan Singh
- D.Gomdhar Konwar
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The paikas were a hereditary militia who held rent-free jagir land for their military service; the Company took that land, raised the revenue demand and abolished the cowrie currency, forcing payment in silver.
Read the full explanation →The Santhal Hul of 1855-56 was led by which pair of brothers?
- A.Sidhu and Kanhu
- B.Tipu Shah and Karam Shah
- C.Chittur Singh and Umaji Naik
- D.Majnu Shah and Bhawani Pathak
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The rising spread through the Damin-i-Koh in the Rajmahal hills against zamindars, mahajans and the Company's police, and the Santhals declared Company rule at an end.
Read the full explanation →The Kol Uprising of 1831-32 took place mainly in which region?
- A.Khandesh
- B.Chhotanagpur
- C.Malabar
- D.The Jungle Mahals
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The Kol Uprising of 1831-32 spread over Ranchi, Hazaribagh, Palamau, Manbhum and Singhbhum in the Chhotanagpur plateau, and was led by Buddho Bhagat.
Read the full explanation →Which queen led the rebellion at Kittur against the East India Company in 1824?
- A.Rani Chennamma
- B.Rani Avantibai
- C.Rani Durgavati
- D.Rani Velu Nachiyar
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When the Company refused to recognise her adopted son as heir and moved to annex the state, she took up arms in 1824, defeated the first British force sent against her and was captured in the second attack; her commander Sangolli Rayanna continued the struggle.
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