What were the social causes behind the struggle of 1857?
- British interference in the Indian religious customs and traditions.
- Force full conversion of religion. The Hindus and Muslims where forced by Christian missionaries to embrace Christianity.
- The social order of the centuries felt threatened when great reformers started abolishing practices of Sati and infanticides.
- Widow Remarraige was legalized.
- High ranking jobs were always with the British.
- The education reduced the importance of the Pundits and malvis.