{"id":1094,"date":"2026-08-09T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/revolt-of-1857-is-a-sepoy-mutiny-or-first-war-of-independence-upsc-psir-2013-1503\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T21:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T16:26:19","slug":"revolt-of-1857-is-a-sepoy-mutiny-or-first-war-of-independence-upsc-psir-2013-1503","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/revolt-of-1857-is-a-sepoy-mutiny-or-first-war-of-independence-upsc-psir-2013-1503\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolt of 1857 is a \u2018Sepoy Mutiny\u2019 or \u2018First War of Independence\u2019."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>&mdash; how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">colonial \/ military reading \u2014 Seeley (sepoy mutiny, no popular \/ national character) \u2014 Majumdar (neither first, nor national, nor a war of independence) \u2014 Bayly (rebels shared no modern idea of an Indian nation) \u2014 nationalist reading answers back &#8211; Savarkar (war of liberation, The Indian War of Independence, 1857) \u2014 \u00a7S.N. Sen (national revolts often led by minorities \u2014 narrow base # no national meaning) \u2014 balanced view \u2014 Metcalf (&quot;more than a mutiny, less than a national revolt&quot;)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">against both extremes \u2014 not a mere mutiny (mass base of princes, peasants, artisans) yet not a modern national war (no pan-Indian consciousness) \u2014 middle position corrects both poles<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">R1 neither label fully fits \u2014 not yet modern nationalism, but the first large anti-British upheaval R2 lasting weight lies in the memory of resistance \u2014 later strengthened anti-colonial nationalism \u2014 a watershed in modern India<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[46],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[57],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1094","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-46","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-indian-nationalism","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1094\/revisions\/3327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}