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"Rumours and prosphesies played a part in moving the people into action during the revolt of 1857." Examine the statement with rumours and reasons for its belief.

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Solution :Rumours and prophesies of the revolt of 1857 :
(i) The sepoys who had arrived in Delhi from Mcerut had told Bahadur Shah about bullets coated with the fat of cows and pigs.
(ii) Biting those bullets WOULD corrupt their caste and RELIGION. They were referting to the cartridges of the ENFIELD riles which had just been given to them.
(iii) The British tried to explain to the sepoys that this was not the case but the rumour that the new cartndges were greased with the fat of cows and pigs sprcad like wildfire across the sepoy lines of North India.
(iv) In the third week of January 1857 a "low-caste" halasi who worked in the magazine in Dum Dum had asked a Brahmin sepoy fora drink of water from his LOTA. The sepoy had refused saying that the "lower caste's" touch would defile the lota.
(v) There was the rumor that the British government had hatched a gigantic conspiracy to destroy the caste and religion of Hindus and Muslims. To this end, the rumours said, the British had mixed the bone dust of cows and pigs into the flour that was sold in the market.
(vi) There was fear and suspicion that the British wanted to convert Indians to Christianity.
(vii) The response to the call for action was reivorced by the prophecy that British rule would come to an CND on the centenary of the Battle of Plassey, on 23 June, 1857.
(viii) In North India, chapattis were being distributed from village to village. A person would come at night and give a chapatti to the watchman of the village and ask him to make five more and distribute to the next village, and so on.


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