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CONSEQUENCES OF the REVOLT

OF 1857

• 400 YEARS OF MUGHAL RULE CAME TO AN END.

• SOME LOCAL RULERS WERE ALLOWED TO RULE

THEIR TERRITORIES BUT WERE UNDER THE

BRITISH RULE

• INDIA WAS GOVERED DIRECTLY BY THE BRITISH

CROWN AND THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

• THE BRITISH APPOINTED A GOVERNOR GENERAL

TO RULE THE COUNTRY.

• IT INSPIRED THE INDIANS AND SOON THE INDIAN

INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT STARTED.