CBSE Class 8 Social Science Worksheet Chapter 5 When People Rebel - PDF

1. Fill in the blanks:

1. _______ is a funeral practice where recently widowed women would immolate themselves on their husband's funeral pyre.

2. Sepoy mutiny started in _______.

3. Peshwa Baji Rao II adopted ________.

4. Delhi was recaptured by the British in ______.

2. Who was Nana Saheb? What did he plead with the British?

3. Define Sati.

4. Choose the correct option for the given blank.

I. ___________ proclaimed himself Peshwa. 

1. Nana Saheb 

2. Baji Rao 

3. Tantia Tope 

4. Mangal Pandey 

II. Lucknow was taken over by the British in 

1. March 1858 

2. September 1857 

3. June 1858

4. July 1859

III. The company brought reinforcements from 

1. Madras 

2. Bombay 

3. England 

4. Delhi

IV. The main centres of the revolt were

1. Delhi

2. Meerut 

3. Lucknow 

4. All of them

V. Delhi was recaptured from the rebel forces in ______________

1. September 1857 

2. May 1857 

3. June 1858 

4. July 1865

5. What was the new act of 1858?

6. Explain the situation of the peasants and landowners in the rural areas?

7. Why did the British treat Muslims with suspicion and hostility?

8. What rumour spread about the new cartridges?

9. What step did the British take to end the Mughal dynasty?

10. Governor General Dalhousie took over Awadh under what pretext?

11. Who was Tantia Tope?

12. What made the Indians rebel against Britisher, and how they all decided that the British were their only enemy to them?

13. Who was tied and hanged during the revolt?

14. Name the different causes of the Sepoy mutiny.

15. Explain the political causes for the Sepoy mutiny.

16. Explain the social causes for the Sepoy mutiny.

17. Explain the economic causes for the Sepoy mutiny.

18. Who triggered the first mutiny?

19. Explain the military causes for the Sepoy mutiny.

20. Who actively participated in the uprising against the British?

21. After which year did the company allow the Christian missionaries to function freely?

22. Who wrote the book ‘Majha Pravaas’?

23. Define the term Mutiny.

24. Who was a key military rebel leader in Bareilly?

25. After the revolt, from which areas did the British start recruiting soldiers?

Answers to the Worksheet

1. 

1. Sati 

2. March 1857

3. Nana Saheb

4.  September 1857

2. Nana Saheb was the adoptive son of Peshwa Baji Rao II. After his father's demise, Nana Saheb asked the British to give him his father’s pension. The British refused to do so and defeated Nana Saheb in case he revolted.

3. Sati is a Hindu funeral ritual in which a newly bereaved woman incinerates themselves on her husband's funeral pyre.

4.

1. A. Nana Saheb

2. B. September 1857 

3. C. England

4. D. All of them

5. A. September 1857

5. The act of 1858 transferred the ruling power from the East India Company to the British Crown.

6. Peasants and landowners in the rural areas despised the high taxes and rigorous revenue collection tactics. Several people could not repay their money lender loans and were forced to abandon the fields they had cultivated for generations.

7. The British believed that the Muslims were influencing the rebellion and were heavily responsible for it.

8. Rumour spread that the new cartridges were coated with the fat of cows and pigs. 

9. The British removed the Mughal king from the minted coins made by the company.

10. Governor General Dalhousie took over Awadh on the pretext of misgovernment.

11. Tantia Tope was the general of Nana Saheb.

12. Indians revolted against British policies. They all shared the belief that they only had one nemesis, and that was the British. People began to organise themselves, interact, take the initiative, and demonstrate confidence in their situation.

13. Hundreds of sepoys were tied and hanged.

14. Different causes of the Sepoy mutiny are :

1. Political causes

2. Social causes

3. Economic causes

4. Religious causes

5. Military causes

6. Immediate causes

15. Political causes for the Sepoy mutiny regarding the annexation agenda caused alarm and insecurity among the rulers of numerous states. Incompetence and corruption in the administration intensified political discontent, and the Indians desired to liberate themselves from the British.

16. Sepoy mutiny was fuelled socially as the Indians viewed the constant interference of the British in their traditional belief, norms and values as a threat to their religion and land.

17. The economic causes for the Sepoy mutiny are:

• The heavy taxation and discontentment regarding taxation grew rapidly within the Indian community. 

• Most Indian soldiers in the East Indian Company belonged to farmer families, adversely affected by the British rules and norms.

18. Mangal Pandey triggered the first mutiny.

19. Some of the military causes for Sepoy mutiny were that the Sepoys' income was meagre compared to those of the British soldiers, and their opportunities for promotion were slim. 

Certain military measures that offended the Sepoys' religious beliefs further reduced their devotion. They were opposed to abroad duty since it meant they would lose their caste.

20. Begum Hazrat Mahal took an active part in the uprising against the British. 

21. After 1830, the company allowed Christian missionaries to function freely in its domain and own land and property.

22. ‘Vishnubhatt Godse wrote Majha Pravaas’.

23. When a group of soldiers disobeys their superior's commands in the army, such an act is called mutiny.

24. Bakht Khan, a soldier from Bareilly, became a key figure in the rebellion.

25. The number of soldiers from Awadh, Bihar and Central India decreased, and more were recruited from the Gurkhas, Sikhs and Pathans.

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1. State true or False.

• Peasant families did not try to negotiate with the company to protect their identity and interest. ____

• Bengal faced a subsidiary alliance in 1801. ____

• The quantity of Indian soldiers increased after the revolt. ____

• In 1850, new laws were passed to make the conversion to Christianity easy. ______ 

2. Answer the following questions. 

• Where were the main centres of the revolt? 

• Lucknow was taken over by the British in which year? 

• When was Delhi recaptured from the rebel forces?

• Who took the active steps in organising the uprising against the British?

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