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Rani Lakshmibai asked the Company to recognise whom as heir to Jhansi?Read the answer and worked solution →Awadh was taken over by the Company in:Read the answer and worked solution →Which Governor-General announced in 1849 that Bahadur Shah Zafar's family would leave the Red Fort after his death?Read the answer and worked solution →The maulvi from Faizabad who prophesied the end of British rule was:Read the answer and worked solution →Sepoys believed the new rifle cartridges were greased with the fat of:Read the answer and worked solution →On 8 April 1857, Mangal Pandey was hanged for attacking his officers at:Read the answer and worked solution →On 10 May 1857 the Meerut soldiers first marched to the:Read the answer and worked solution →The rebel sepoys in Delhi proclaimed as their leader:Read the answer and worked solution →Bahadur Shah Zafar wrote to chiefs and rulers asking them to form a:Read the answer and worked solution →Nana Saheb expelled the British garrison from which city?Read the answer and worked solution →Rani Avantibai Lodhi of Ramgarh fought the British in the Mandla region of:Read the answer and worked solution →Bakht Khan, a key military leader of the uprising in Delhi, was a soldier from:Read the answer and worked solution →The old zamindar who joined the rebel sepoys in Bihar was:Read the answer and worked solution →Bahadur Shah Zafar was sent to prison in October 1858 at:Read the answer and worked solution →Rani Lakshmibai was defeated and killed in:Read the answer and worked solution →After escaping to central India, Tantia Tope fought a:Read the answer and worked solution →The British regained control of the country by the end of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Act of 1858 transferred the powers of the East India Company to the:Read the answer and worked solution →After 1858 the Governor-General of India was also given the title of:Read the answer and worked solution →After 1857, ruling chiefs were allowed to pass on their kingdoms to heirs including:Read the answer and worked solution →After 1857 more soldiers were recruited from Gurkhas, Sikhs and:Read the answer and worked solution →The Paik uprising at Khurda broke out on 29 March of:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the 1857 leadersRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the 1857 centresRead the answer and worked solution →Find the real nameRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the 1857 wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Before or after 1857Read the answer and worked solution →Which centreRead the answer and worked solution →Type the yearRead the answer and worked solution →1857 bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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Rani Lakshmibai asked the Company to recognise whom as heir to Jhansi?

  1. Her adopted son
  2. Her brother
  3. Her nephew
  4. Her minister
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Correct answer: A. Her adopted son

1. Her husband had died without a natural heir. 2. She had adopted a son. 3. The Company refused to recognise him. _Source: syllabus History, Our Pasts III, Chapter 5, When People Rebel, 1857 and After._

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Awadh was taken over by the Company in:

  1. 1857
  2. 1856
  3. 1801
  4. 1849
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Correct answer: B. 1856

1. A subsidiary alliance came in 1801. 2. Dalhousie later claimed misgovernment. 3. Awadh was annexed in 1856. _Source: syllabus History, Our Pasts III, Chapter 5, When People Rebel, 1857 and After._

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Which Governor-General announced in 1849 that Bahadur Shah Zafar's family would leave the Red Fort after his death?

  1. Dalhousie
  2. Canning
  3. Bentinck
  4. Curzon
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Correct answer: A. Dalhousie

1. The Company planned to end the Mughal dynasty. 2. The announcement came in 1849. 3. It was made by Dalhousie. _Source: syllabus History, Our Pasts III, Chapter 5, When People Rebel, 1857 and After._

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