Why did the war of independence in 1857 fail?

Answer 1

the condition was pathelic 40,000 more than 2 lakhs indian soldiers.promotions were not there.postages were not charged .dalhousie said indian should pay postage. indian should cross the oceans made them out cast

Answer 2

There were two important reasons for the failure of the war of independence. One was the great lack of unity between the rebels and different areas of unrest. The other was the tremendous strength of the british.

1.lack of unity: although the resentment to the unpopular british rule was a single cause for the war, the desired results were very different for the rebels.there were some who wanted to restore the rule of their local rulers ,some wanted bahadur shah zafar as their leader but it is also true that most indian princes did not want to see british rule restored.there were uncoordinated rebellions which were vain as there should have been a general , coordinated uprising to throw-of the shackles of foreign domination.if the revolt was properly coordinated the result of failure would not have appeared and history's route would have been changed.

2.british strength and ambition: the british were the most powerful state in the world at that time .its highly experienced troops in warfare,their discipline in the battleground,britain's highly developed economy and industries and their ambition to hold on to this important part of their empire were reasons why they,in the end, were able to fight-off the rebellion which was uncoordinated .

Answer 3

There were many reasons for the failure of the war . the main reason was lack of unity but there were many more reasons which led to the failure . There was lack of leadership and command . there was no as such leader who could unite all scattered forces . British were having better resources than Indians , they had well equipped rifles however Indians were fighting with spears or swords .It can also be said that the sudden start of the war lead to confusion thus there was no plan at all. There was extreme lack of communication between the leaders or fighters who raised up . these were some reasons of the failure of the war.