The Revolt of 1857 was a major uprising in against the rule of British East India Company. The Revolt began on 10 th May, 1857 in the form of mutiny of sepoys of company's army in the town of Meerut. The common masses such as peasants, farmers, workers etc. participated on a large scale in several regions of the country.The peasants joined the revolt as a protest against forced evictions from their land, increase in rents of lands by the government, exploitation of farmers by the government and zamindars and degradation of the peasantry due to British policies which sought the peasant's land to grow commercial crops such as Indigo. Further, the revenue policies had destroyed the gentry as well. This is why the beneficiaries of the new revenue policies were also not satisfied.