There are divergent view regarding the nature of the outbreak of 1857. British historians have called it a Mutiny – confined to the army which did not command the support of the people at large.
Same view was held by .contemporary Indians like Munshi Jiwan Lai, Moinuddin, (Both eye witnesses at Delhi) and Durgadas Bandopadhyaya. Others have described it as ** struggle for supremacy between the and White. Some describe it as a struggle between oriental and occidental civilisation and culture. A few have described it as Hindu- ***** to overthrow the British rule. Some Indian have called it a “well planned struggle” and as “the first war of Indian Independence”.
