The Modern educated Indians did not support the Revolt of 1857.
Reason: They were loyal to a foreign regime.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
The Modern educated Indians did not support the Revolt of 1857.
Reason: They were loyal to a foreign regime.
Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?
The correct option is C A is true, but R is false
The modern educated Indians did not support the Revolt of 1857. They were repelled by the rebels’ appeals to superstitions and their opposition to progressive social measures. The educated Indians wanted to end the backwardness of their country. But they mistakenly believed that the British rule would help them accomplish these tasks of modernization while the rebels, led by zamindars, old rulers and chieftains and other feudal elements, would take the country backward.
Only later did the education Indians learn from experience that foreign rule was incapable of modernizing the country and that it would instead impoverish it and keep it backward. The revolutionaries of 1857 proved to be more far-sighted in this respect; they had a better instinctive understanding of the evils of foreign rule and of the necessity to get rid of it.
On the other hand, they did not realize, as did the educated intelligentsia, that the country had fallen prey to foreignness precisely because it had stuck to rotten and outmoded customs, traditions and institutions. They failed to see that national salvation lay not in going back to feudal monarchy but in going forward to a modern society, a modern economy, scientific education and modern political institutions. In any case, it cannot be said that the educated Indians were antinational or loyal to a foreign regime.
The modern educated Indians did not support the Revolt of 1857. They were repelled by the rebels’ appeals to superstitions and their opposition to progressive social measures. The educated Indians wanted to end the backwardness of their country. But they mistakenly believed that the British rule would help them accomplish these tasks of modernization while the rebels, led by zamindars, old rulers and chieftains and other feudal elements, would take the country backward.
Only later did the education Indians learn from experience that foreign rule was incapable of modernizing the country and that it would instead impoverish it and keep it backward. The revolutionaries of 1857 proved to be more far-sighted in this respect; they had a better instinctive understanding of the evils of foreign rule and of the necessity to get rid of it.
On the other hand, they did not realize, as did the educated intelligentsia, that the country had fallen prey to foreignness precisely because it had stuck to rotten and outmoded customs, traditions and institutions. They failed to see that national salvation lay not in going back to feudal monarchy but in going forward to a modern society, a modern economy, scientific education and modern political institutions. In any case, it cannot be said that the educated Indians were antinational or loyal to a foreign regime.
