In May 1857, a number of battalions in the Bengal army of the East India Company rebelled against their immediate British officers and the British administration in the North Western Provinces (NWP), Oudh and Bihar. The protracted conflict that stretched over a year was extremely violent, ...
The 1857 Army Revolt in India: Sind Incidents and Impact on Policing in IndiaNabi, AftabPakistan Horizon
In 1600, the establishment of the British East India Company marked the beginning of the expansion of the British Empire in Asia. The British East India Company had been operating in India since the early 17th century, butthe Indian troops started an uprisingin 1857, whicheventually led to the...
The immediate cause of the Indian Revolt of 1857, or Sepoy Mutiny, was a seemingly minor change in the weapons used by the British East India Company's troops. The Company had upgraded to the new Pattern 1853 Enfield rifle, which used greased paper cartridges. In order to open the cartridg...
Define Great Revolt. Great Revolt synonyms, Great Revolt pronunciation, Great Revolt translation, English dictionary definition of Great Revolt. Noun 1. Great Revolt - a widespread rebellion in 1381 against poll taxes and other inequities that oppressed
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 Ind...
Economic conditions of people living in urban India and rural India; Charges raised by the left rural coalition group consisting of farmers and workers against the Congress Party government; Role of former United Nations official Sharad Joshi in the revolt by countryside farmers.Bird...
That sense of security provided the very best opportunity for those who wished to organise a revolt. There were two groups of natives who had a very strong inducement in their own history, to overthrow the British power, the Mohammedans who had been the lords of India and the Marathas who...
Nana Sahib is wanted for the atrocities he committed during the Sepoy revolt in India in 1857. Ten years later, an engineer named Banks invites Colonel Munro, Captain Hood, a Frenchman named Maucler and their associates to accompany him on a tour of the northern parts of India via a unique...
Recent scholarship on the social history of health and medicine in colonial India has moved beyond enclavist or hegemonic aspects of imperial medicine and