{"id":121784,"date":"2022-05-19T10:55:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T05:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=121784"},"modified":"2022-05-19T10:55:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T05:25:29","slug":"rumours-and-prophecies-played-a-part-in-moving-people-to-action-explain-the-statement-in-the-context-of-the-revolt-of-1857","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/rumours-and-prophecies-played-a-part-in-moving-people-to-action-explain-the-statement-in-the-context-of-the-revolt-of-1857","title":{"rendered":"Rumours and Prophecies played a part in moving people to action.\u2019 Explain the statement in the context of the Revolt of 1857."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Rumours and Prophecies played a part in moving people to action.\u2019 Explain the statement in the context of the Revolt of 1857.<\/h2>\n<h3>Answer.<br \/>\nRumours and Prophecies in the Revolt of 1857.<br \/>\n(i) There was a rumour that the new cartridges were greased with the fat of cows and pigs which would pollute their castes and religion.<br \/>\n(ii) The rumours about the British trying to destroy the<br \/>\nreligion of Indians by mixing the bone dust of cows and pigs into the flour<br \/>\n(iii) There was fear and suspicion that the British wanted<br \/>\nto convert Indians to Christianity.<br \/>\n(iv) There were rumours that British had mixed the bone<br \/>\ndust of cows and pigs into the flour that was sold in the market.<br \/>\n(v) Prophecy:The response to the call for action was<br \/>\nreinforced by the prophecy that British rule would come to an end on the centenary of the Battle of Plassey, on 23 June, 1857.<br \/>\n(vi) Any other relevant point<\/h3>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rumours and Prophecies played a part in moving people to action.\u2019 Explain the statement in the context of the Revolt of 1857. Answer. Rumours and Prophecies in the Revolt of 1857. (i) There was a rumour that the new cartridges were greased with the fat of cows and pigs which would pollute their castes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":121770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-121784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121785,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121784\/revisions\/121785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}