When did tribal leaders, Sitaram Kanwar and Raghunath Singh Mandloi Bhilala join the Anti-British Revolution?

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Correct — B, 1857 A.D. Sitaram Kanwar and Raghunath Singh Mandloi, tribal leaders of the Bhilala community from the Barwani (Nimar) area, rose against British rule during the great revolt of 1857 — the same nationwide uprising that included Rani Lakshmibai, Tatya Tope, and Kunwar Singh. Sitaram Kanwar headed an espionage network and was killed fighting British forces under Captain Keating, while Raghunath Singh Mandloi was subsequently captured.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) 1842 predates the 1857 revolt — there is no established anti-British uprising by these two leaders at this earlier date.  (c) 1927 falls in the later, Congress-led phase of the freedom movement (around the Simon Commission agitation), not the tribal uprisings of the 1857 revolt.  (d) 1942 is the year of the Quit India Movement — a much later, nationwide civil-disobedience phase, distinct from the armed tribal resistance of 1857.

Concept: The Revolt of 1857 was not confined to sepoy mutinies in northern India — it also triggered parallel, locally-led tribal uprisings across the princely and tribal tracts of central India, including the Nimar/Barwani belt of present Madhya Pradesh, where Bhilala and Bhil leaders such as Sitaram Kanwar, Raghunath Singh Mandloi, and Bhima Nayak took up arms independently of the main sepoy centres.

State PCS 2023 Q92 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer

State PCS 2023 Q92 — Madhya Pradesh GK PYQ with Answer