In his book War of Indian independence’, Veer Savarkar has regarded the revolt of 1857 as the first freedom struggle for independence. Whatever be the actual form of this revolt, shortly this revolt became a challenge to the British rule in India and it received the credit of being the national freedom struggle against the British.
It would be correct to consider it as the first war of Indain Independence because it included nationalistic elements and this was the first joint and nationally spread struggle to get India freed from the British.
