UPSC Mains · 2019 · GS Paper I · 10 marks
The 1857 Uprising was the culmination of the recurrent big and small local rebellions that had occurred in the preceding hundred years of British rule. Elucidate.
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- Modern India
- Theme
- Revolts
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