Story of Bravery and Betrayal !! _ Revolt of 1857

[Imtiaz_Sarwar]

My sympathies are with the "freedom fighters".

 

[Butchcassidy]

Anything to support that claim?

I dont know, it is what i read in the NCERT history book if i recall it correctly

 

[13 komaun]

It was War.

war !!

By feudal lords to safeguard their interests

 

[Levina]

I dont know, it is what i read in the NCERT history book if i recall it correctly

Then we have read the same book but to be honest I dont remember what I'd read.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

war !!

By feudal lords to safeguard their interests

Agreed. But still a war.

 

[13 komaun]

Agreed. But still a war.

Its good that British Won.

 

[Levina]

Its good that British Won.

why would that be?

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Its good that British Won.

Difficult to say. But had the British not won then, it would have taken us a lot of time to feel once again as one. After the Maratha decline India had been highly divided.

 

[13 komaun]

why would that be?

Railways,Education system and territorial integrity to name a few.

Difficult to say. But had the British not won then, it would have taken us a lot of time to feel once again as one. After the Maratha decline India had been highly divided.

If British not won then we would have Atleast 10 free countries in this subcontinent and a foolish ugly 'Mughal' on our currency Note.

 

[SarthakGanguly]

If British not won then we would have Atleast 10 free countries in this subcontinent and a foolish ugly 'Mughal' on our currency Note.

Nope.

Mughals were defeated and was a Maratha Puppet by 1758. They became a British puppet in 1759.
We would have been ruled by the Marathas. Or probably a coalition of the Marathas and the Sikhs.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

They were Bengal too Under Bengal presidency

No.. they were mostly rajput n brahmans from awadh n bihar.. and some from the sultans forces.\

 

[bongbang]

awadh n bihar.

Those areas were Bengal too, that time. That is what I said. Check Bengal presidency. Bengal was divided into pieces in 1905. Only BD left as the true independent descendant of Bengal today.

 

[ExtraOdinary]

why would that be?

In the greater scheme of things it was good they won. The country, there wouldnt actually be a country, would probably have remained divided with scores of kingdoms fighting each other.

And also no concept of western democracy, which is what holds it together today. When we gained independence there were more than 500 "princely states", some of whom had to be forcefully integrated because the rulers were unwilling to lose power.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Those areas were Bengal too, that time. That is what I said. Check Bengal presidency. Bengal was divided into pieces in 1905. Only BD left as the true independent descendant of Bengal today.

those were seperate areas... Awadh itself was ruled by a Nawab ...

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

My sympathies are with the "freedom fighters".

Your ancestors didnt sympathise with them... these were the same people who help the british colonise you.. and the "independence" started due to political reason mostly n not for the love of freedom..