Question

Who called 1857 revolt as the first war of Indian Independence?
a. Dadabhai Naoroji
b. V.D Savarkar
c. B.K Dutt
d. Gopala Krishna Gokhale

Answer 1

Hint:
The first Prime Minister of India, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru insisted on using the term ‘First War of Independence’ to refer to the 1857 revolt and the Government of India adopted the terminology.

Complete step by step solution:
V.D Savarkar called the 1857 revolt the First War of Indian Independence. He wrote a book called “The history of the war of Indian Independence” in which he popularized this term in the year 1909. It was originally written in Marathi.

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857-58 against the colonial rule of the British East India Company. This company functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion started on 10th of May 1857, and it was in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of EAC’s army in Meerut. It leads to a lot of mutinies and rebellions mainly in the areas of Upper Gangetic plain and the central part of India. This whole rebellion thing started to become a considerable threat to British power in those regions. Britishers granted amnesty to all the rebels who weren’t involved in murders, even though they didn’t declare hostilities to have formed until 8th July 1859. IT is contested by the name Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence.


Hence, the correct answer is option B.

Note:
There were a lot of repercussions like about 100,000 civilian Indians being killed during the war. General massacres took place following the capture of Delhi, Allahabad, Kanpur and Lucknow by the British forces.