'Indian nationalism in the middle of the 19th century was in Embryonic stage' was a historian with regard to the fact

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Correct — A, Dr. R. C. Majumdar and Dr. S. N. Sen. These modern Indian historians of the Revolt of 1857 (Majumdar's 'The Sepoy Mutiny and the Revolt of 1857' and S. N. Sen's 'Eighteen Fifty-Seven') judged that a modern, all-India national consciousness had not yet formed in the mid-19th century — Indian nationalism was still at an early, embryonic stage.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Outram and Taylor are associated with the view that 1857 was a Hindu-Muslim (especially Muslim) conspiracy, not with the 'embryonic nationalism' assessment.  (c) These British writers treated the events differently and are not the historians linked to this statement.  (d) John Lawrence (and Seeley) saw 1857 as merely a sepoy mutiny with no national character — the opposite framing from an 'embryonic nationalism' reading.

Concept: Historians differ sharply on the nature of 1857: a sepoy mutiny (Lawrence, Seeley), a Muslim/feudal conspiracy (Outram, Taylor), the 'first war of independence' (Savarkar), or — in the balanced Indian scholarship of Majumdar and S. N. Sen — a major but not yet national upheaval, because Indian national feeling was still nascent.

State PCS 2020 Q51 — History PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2020 Q51 — History PYQ with Answer