{"id":133032,"date":"2023-03-01T16:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=133032"},"modified":"2023-03-01T16:10:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T10:40:54","slug":"rumours-and-prophesies-played-an-important-role-in-the-revolt-of-1857-explain-the-statement-with-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/rumours-and-prophesies-played-an-important-role-in-the-revolt-of-1857-explain-the-statement-with-example","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rumours and prophesies played an important role in the Revolt of 1857.\u2019 Explain the statement with example"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question 8:\u2018Rumours and prophesies played an important role in the Revolt of 1857.\u2019 Explain the statement with example<\/h2>\n<h3>The correct answer is -i. Cartridges of the Enfield rifles -Bullets coated with the fat of cows<br \/>\nand pigs and that biting those bullets would corrupt their caste and<br \/>\nreligion.<br \/>\nii. Flour-According to rumors the British had mixed the bone dust of<br \/>\ncows and pigs into the flour that was sold in the market.<br \/>\niii. Chapattis -Reports came from various parts of North India that<br \/>\nchapattis were being distributed from village to village.<br \/>\niv. Lota and khalasi issue- khalasi from a lower caste asked a Brahmin<br \/>\nsepoy to give him some water from his container of water. The<br \/>\nsepoy refused to give him his container saying that touch by a lower<br \/>\ncaste would pollute the water.<br \/>\nv. Any other relevant point<br \/>\nAny three points to be explained with example<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question 8:\u2018Rumours and prophesies played an important role in the Revolt of 1857.\u2019 Explain the statement with example The correct answer is -i. Cartridges of the Enfield rifles -Bullets coated with the fat of cows and pigs and that biting those bullets would corrupt their caste and religion. ii. Flour-According to rumors the British had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":132941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133032","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\/133032","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=133032"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133034,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133032\/revisions\/133034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}