The whole sepoy army throughout Hindustan was in a ferment. Regiments began here and there to mutiny; then on May 10, 1857, the whole of the regiments at Mirat, a great military station in the north-west provinces, mutinied, killed every European they could lay hands on, marched upon ...
and we have seen in an earlier article that it was the British dethronement of the King of Oudh in February 1856 that led directly to the Sepoy revolt in May the following year. Yet although Delhi fell to the mutineers on the first day of the Mutiny, it was not until nearly a fortni...
Agrarian Rebellion; Anti-colonialism; British colonialism; Indian independence; Indian Rebellion of 1857; Land settlement policy; Sepoy mutiny This essay examines the Indian Rebellion, or 'Sepoy...doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91206-6_228-1Arup Kumar Sen...
Indian Mutiny, Sepoy Mutiny - discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858; the revolt was put down after several battles and sieges (notably the siege at Lucknow) Lucknow - the British residents of Lucknow were besieged by Indian insurgents during the...
Great Sepoy Mutiny, 1857-1858; British Rule, 1858-1947Moghul, , is Persian (مُغُول, Mughūl in Arabic) for "Mongol" -- although the Moghuls were rather more Turkish than Mongol. An alternative pronunciation in Persian is Moghol, which, with a different final vowel, would...
And the British Government, when established, has so carefully avoided offence to caste or creed that on one great occasion only, the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, have the smouldering fires of credulous fanaticism broken out against our rule. I believe the British-Indian position of complete religious ...
Also Known As Revolt of 1857 • Indian Mutiny • Sepoy Mutiny • First War of Independence Date May 10, 1857 - July 8, 1859 Location Agra • Delhi • India • Kanpur • Lucknow Participants Mughal dynasty • United Kingdom Context British Empire • Western colonialism • ...
The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 In late March 1857 a sepoy (Indian soldier) in the employ of the East India Company named Mangal Pandey attacked British officers at the military garrison in Barrackpore. He was arrested and then executed by the British in early April. Later in April sepoy troopers...
The Revolt of 1857 and the British raj The termsepoyrefers to an Indian soldier employed by a European power. It entered English via the Portuguesesipai, derived from the Hindustanisipāhī, itself from the Persiansipahi, meaning “cavalryman.” ...
discontent with British administration in India led to numerous mutinies in 1857 and 1858; the revolt was put down after several battles and sieges (notably the siege at Lucknow) 相似短语 indian mutinyphr. 印度叛变 sepoy mutinyphr. 1857年的印度民族大起义 ...