Indian Mutiny Of 1857 Essay

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How far do sources 1,2 and 3 suggest that religious differences provided the main cause for the Indian mutiny of 1857? Explain your answer using sources 1,2 and 3. Taken as a set, sources 1, 2 and 3 agree with the theory that religious differences provided the main cause for the Indian mutiny-1857. Most strongly agreeing with the stamen are sources 1 and 2 as source 2 shows in taking about the British intent to ‘make all Brahmins into Christians; and source 1 comments on the un humble cartridges containing ‘cow and pig fat’. Source 3 takes a more deep routed approach when explaining the main cause and comments on how the caste system has led to dissatisfaction within the seapoys. This source subtly points towards religious differences being a problem your religious purity aided towards what caste you were then set in. An area of agreement between all 3 sources is that they all comment on triggers of the Indian mutiny 1857, they also suggest that it was in fact religious differences where the most important cause. Source 1 questions the ‘vaunted purity’ of a Brahman ( an important religious figure) about the cartridges and if he were to ‘tear these open with…show more content…
In both these sources the weight of the evidence suggests greatly that that religious differences provided the main cause for the Indian mutiny of 1857, whereas source 3 argues that the caste system was the main cause of the munity however this does link in with religious difference and the weight of this source is not as strong as it was written before the mutiny even happened. So overall sources 1 and 2 most strongly agree with the hypothesis while source 3 suggest it greatly contributed to the mutiny, however ultimately we can infer from all three of these sources that religious differences where the most significant cause of the mutiny in
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