Volume 07 Issue 06 June 2024
Dr. Lalita Kumari
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Lakshmibai College
DOI : https://doi.org/10.47191/ijsshr/v7-i06-101Google Scholar Download Pdf
ABSTRACT
This research paper ‘Demystifying the First War of Independence of 1857’ is tended to rattle the jinx of not to call it a first war of independence. After the completion of more than 167 years when the most comprehensive and commendable works have been done by the generations of researchers/ historians from different regions of the subcontinent, so, it seems most opportune time to demystify the jinx of First War of Independence’. This paper is attempted to examine and analyze the uprisings in the different regions of the subcontinent simultaneously which lasted more than two years and shook the shackles of the British Empire. Contextually, when most of the regions/castes/ creeds were participating against the white race -the British, hence, it will be most plausible to call it a first war of independence.
KEYWORDS:Civilization and Barbarism, Bishnupuria, Yulbaglu, Halaguli, Nasara, Jihad
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