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yes the revolt of 1857 was the result of discontentment among the Indians of different sections of the society upon the company's rule.

pesants:

pesants were not able to pay hight taxes, shifted to commercial cropping for which company gave very little money, has to get credit from informal lenders and zamindars. thus they became debt ridden, famine crept into the society and they suffered from forced labour demanded from the zamindars.

sepoys:

sepoys were unhappy with the Britishers restricting the top rank posts to english

they have to travel crossing seas to fight battles which is against their belief and they may loose their caste. many sepoys who went across seas were banished from their village.

the rumour about the greese in the cartridge was the last string which aggravated the sepoys and they started to revolt.

artisans:

due to exploitative trading laws of the British, handicraft lost its market.

purchasing power of people reduced which in turn reduced the demand in local market and high export duties have destroyed its international market too.

religious people / upper caste:

the British interference into the practice of sati, child marriage etc. have created discontent among the religious people and upper caste. British imposing ban on sati and child marriage aggravated the upper caste hindus.

tribals:

forest laws of British angered the tribal population whose life is dependent on the forest produce and it was their home.

britishers threw them out of the forest and restricted them from collecting minor forest products, rearing of their animals in forest etc.

But inspite of all these, there were people who supported the british rule. Few kings, british appointed zamindars (who gets benefitted by collecting extra taxes from farmers), south (who were less affected by the company rule), reformers ( who welcomed the reformative actions of british against social evils) etc. Supported british rule and were against the revolt.