Revolt of 1857 and Socio-Religious Reform – UPSC GS1

Long before the Indian National Congress, Indians resisted British rule in many local ways. Deposed rulers, zamindars, peasants, artisans, tribal communities and religious groups rose in revolt against high revenue demands, loss of land and…

The Revolt of 1857 was the biggest challenge to British rule in the nineteenth century. It began as a mutiny of sepoys of the Bengal Army and spread into a widespread civil rebellion across north…

In the nineteenth century, Indian society faced a deep crisis of confidence. Western education, Christian missionaries, the printing press and British criticism of Indian customs pushed educated Indians to look again at their own traditions.…

Reform in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was not limited to Brahmo and Arya Samaj circles. Muslim, Sikh and Parsi communities had their own reform movements, and the most radical challenge to the social…