Question

Introduction of a new gun (Enfield rifle) in the army became an immediate reason for the _____.
A. Non Cooperation Movement
B. Civil Disobedience Movement
C. Revolt of 1857
D. None

Answer 1

Hint:The opposition of the Enfield rifle by the Indian army which was proposed by the British government was the first revolt for Independence against them. Many leaders had led this revolt from the different cities like, Ahmadullah Shah led the revolt in Awadh, Jayajirao Sindhia led the revolt from Gwalior and many more.

Complete answer:
Introduction of the new gun (Enfield Rifle) in the army became an immediate reason for the Revolt of 1857. As because the cartridge must be gnawed off prior to stacking it into the weapon. Indian sepoys accepted that the cartridge was lubed with either pig fat or produced using bovine fat. This was against the Hindu and Muslim assessments and strict belief systems. Hence they were hesitant to utilize the 'Enfield' rifle. This was a flashpoint to incense the officers against the Britishers. There had been rumors that the British tried to crush the religions of the Indian public, and driving the local officers to break their consecrated code would have absolutely added to this talk, as it obviously did.

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a significant, but unsuccessful, uprising in India in 1857–58 contrary to the standard of the British East India Company, which worked as a sovereign force in the interest of the British Crown. The revolt was started on 10 May 1857 as an uprising of sepoys of the Company's military in the post town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km) upper east of Delhi. It, at that point, emitted into different uprisings and regular citizen uprisings essentially in the upper Gangetic plain and focal India, however occurrences of revolt additionally happened farther north and east.

It prompted the disintegration of the East India Company, and constrained the British to redesign the military, the monetary framework, and the organization in India, through entry of the Government of India Act 1858. India was from that point controlled straightforwardly by the British government in the new British Raj. On 1 November 1858, Queen Victoria gave a declaration to Indians, which while coming up short on the authority of an established arrangement, guaranteed rights like those of other British subjects. In the next many years, when admission to these rights was not continually impending, Indians were to distinctly allude to the Queen's announcement in developing declarations of another patriotism.

Hence, the correct answer is option (C).

Note:The sepoys likewise slowly got disappointed with different parts of armed force life. Their compensation was generally low and after Awadh and the Punjab were attached, the fighters not, at this point got additional compensation for administration there, in light of the fact that they were not, at this point considered "unfamiliar missions". The lesser British officials turned out to be progressively alienated from their fighters, as a rule regarding them as their racial inferiors.