With reference to rebellions against British consider the following statements 1 There was no major ...........

Modern Indian History 1857-1885

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With reference to rebellions against British, consider the following statements:

1.There was no major armed rebellion before 1857.

2.The scholarly and priestly class often incited the rebellion against the British rule.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

1 Only

2 Only

Both 1 and 2

Neither 1 nor 2

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Explanation:

There was hardly a year without armed opposition or a decade without a major armed rebellion in one part of the country or the other. From 1763 to 1856, there were more than forty major rebellions apart from hundreds of minor ones.
The traditional rulers and ruling elite had financially supported scholars, religious preachers, priests, pandits and maulvis and men of arts and literature. With the coming of the British and the ruin of the traditional landed and bureaucratic elite, this patronage came to an end, and all those who had depended on it were impoverished. So, the scholarly and priestly classes were also active in inciting, not assuaging, hatred and rebellion against foreign rule.