HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Question
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One of the earliest and the best known mutinies before the Revolt of 1857 was
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the Native Infantry Mutiny (1824)
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Indian Soldiers Mutiny at Vellore (1806)
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Sholapur Mutiny (1838)
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Assam Soldiers Mutiny (1824)
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Option B Solution: The Vellore Mutiny was one of the earliest sign of a great mutiny coming up in 1857. The Vellore Mutiny was a major act of defiance that took place on July 10, 1806 and marked the first ever large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company.
Detailed explanation-2: -Karl Marx was the first Western scholar to call the events of 1857 a “national revolt", although he used the term Sepoy Revolt to describe them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vellore Mutiny, outbreak against the British on July 10, 1806, by sepoys (Indian troops employed by the British) at Vellore (now in Tamil Nadu state, southern India).
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