Question

Complete the following sentence:

The people who were fighting did not know that the 1857 revolt was the First War of Indian Independence because ____________.

• A. Indian soldiers were illiterate.
• B. Indians did not know who they were fighting.
• C. the idea of war was not prevalent.
• D. the idea of India did not exist at that time.

Answer 1

The correct option is D the idea of India did not exist at that time.

People did not know what they collectively stood for or what they were fighting for. They did not even know it was the First War of Indian Independence because the idea of India did not exist at the time of the mutiny.