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| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Indian Rebellion, 1857–1859 James Frey, 2020-09-16 Frey's concise and readable history of the Indian Rebellion is an excellent introduction to one of the most important wars of the nineteenth century. The rebellion lasted more than a year and pitted broad sections of north Indian society against the British East India Company. British victory consolidated colonial rule that would only be dislodged by twentieth-century nationalist movements. Frey provides a crystal-clear account of the causes, principal events, and consequences of the rebellion. Equally importantly, he deftly discusses why the rebellion remains controversial. Well-chosen documents add texture to the analysis. This is the best short history of the rebellion in print. —Ian Barrow, Middlebury College |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology Richard Pearce-Moses, 2005 Intended to provide the basic foundation for modern archival practice and theory. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: “A” History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 Sir John William Kaye, 1876 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst, 2020-01-23 While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history. Seeking to fill some gaps in the historiography, Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst examines the effects of the 1857 Rebellion (long taught in Britain as the 'Indian Mutiny') on debates about the issue of jihad during the British Raj. Morgenstein Fuerst shows that the Rebellion had lasting, pronounced effects on the understanding by their Indian subjects (whether Muslim, Hindu or Sikh) of imperial rule by distant outsiders. For India's Muslims their interpretation of the Rebellion as jihad shaped subsequent discourses, definitions and codifications of Islam in the region. Morgenstein Fuerst concludes by demonstrating how these perceptions of jihad, contextualised within the framework of the 19th century Rebellion, continue to influence contemporary rhetoric about Islam and Muslims in the Indian subcontinent.Drawing on extensive primary source analysis, this unique take on Islamic identities in South Asia will be invaluable to scholars working on British colonial history, India and the Raj, as well as to those studying Islam in the region and beyond. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Great Fear of 1857 Kim A. Wagner, 2014 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Indian Mutiny Saul David, 2002 The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the bloodiest insurrection in the history of the British Empire. It began with a large-scale uprising by native troops against their colonial masters, and soon developed into general rebellion as thousands of discontented civilians joined in. It is a tale of brutal murder and heroic resistance from which innocents on both sides could not escape. This work covers the story of the Mutiny. It challenges the accepted wisdom that a British victory was inevitable, showing just how close the mutineers came to dealing a fatal blow to the British Raj. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Skull of Alum Bheg Kim Wagner, 2018-03-01 In 1963, a human skull was discovered in a pub in Kent in south-east England. A brief handwritten note stuck inside the cavity revealed it to be that of Alum Bheg, an Indian soldier in British service who was executed during the aftermath of the 1857 Uprising, or The Indian Mutiny as historians of an earlier era described it. Alum Bheg was blown from a cannon for having allegedly murdered British civilians, and his head was brought back as a grisly war-trophy by an Irish officer present at his execution. The skull is a troublesome relic of both anti- colonial violence and the brutality and spectacle of British retribution. Kim Wagner presents an intimate and vivid account of life and death in British India in the throes of the largest rebellion of the nineteenth century. Fugitive rebels spent months, even years, hiding in the vastness of the Himalayas before they were eventually hunted down and punished by a vengeful colonial state. Examining the colonial practice of collecting and exhibiting human remains, this book offers a critical assessment of British imperialism that speaks to contemporary debates about the legacies of Empire and the myth of the 'Mutiny'. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Devil's Trap James W. Bancroft, 2020-02-19 This history of the Siege of Cawnpore and the massacre of British noncombatants in Colonial India reveals the human side of the struggle. During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the strategic garrison at Cawnpore was surprised by an extended siege. Many British noncombatants were holed up in a makeshift entrenchment, suffering from thirst, starvation and disease, all while being bombarded with cannon balls and bullets. After nearly two months, the company surrendered to the rebel leader Nana Sahib in exchange for safe passage out of the city. But when the survivors reached Sati Chaura Ghat, a landing on the River Ganges, they were massacred. Much has been written about the siege of Cawnpore and the political events which caused it, but there less known about the people who suffered the ordeal. In The Devil’s Trap, historian James Bancroft studies official documentation and primary sources from both sides to offer a more human understanding of events and shed light on the lives of the victims. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Last Mughal (P/B) William Dalrynple, 2007 Winner Of The Duff Cooper Prize For History 2007 Bahadur Shah Zafar Ii, The Last Mughal Emperor, Was A Mystic, A Talented Poet, And A Skilled Calligrapher, Who, Though Deprived Of Real Political Power By The East India Company, Succeeded In Creating A Court Of Great Brilliance, And Presided Over One Of The Great Cultural Renaissances Of Indian History. In 1857 It Was Zafar S Blessing To A Rebellion Among The Company S Own Indian Troops That Transformed An Army Mutiny Into The Largest Uprising The British Empire Ever Had To Face. The Last Mughal Is A Portrait Of The Dazzling Delhi Zafar Personified, And The Story Of The Last Days Of The Great Mughal Capital And Its Final Destruction In The Catastrophe Of 1857. Shaped From Groundbreaking Material, William Dalrymple S Powerful Retelling Of This Fateful Course Of Events Is An Extraordinary Revisionist Work With Clear Contemporary Echoes. It Is The First Account To Present The Indian Perspective On The Siege, And Has At Its Heart The Stories Of The Forgotten Individuals Tragically Caught Up In One Of The Bloodiest Upheavals In History. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: India Allison Stark Draper, 2003-12-15 With more than a billion people and a rich cultural history, India is the worlds largest independent democracy. Beautifully illustrated with period photographs, documents, paintings, and architecture, India: A Primary Source Cultural Guide tells the complete story of the Indian people. Bridging the ancient world with the modern one, the book tells of Indias first known civilization and covers in detail the origins of Buddhism, influences of the Greek world, and the tales of Indias great conquerors. Indian art and architecture are well illustrated, and the influence of British rule, twentieth-century modernization, and Indias independence are also thoroughly explained. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction Andrew Mangham, 2013-10-17 In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'sensational' style, including the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood and Florence Marryat. It contains fifteen specially-commissioned essays and includes a chronology and a guide to further reading. Accessible yet rigorous, this Companion questions what influenced the shape and texture of the sensation novel, and what its repercussions were both in the nineteenth century and up to the present day. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Kaye's and Malleson's History of the Indian Mutiny of 1857-8 Sir John William Kaye, 1906 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination Gautam Chakravarty, 2005-01-13 Gautam Chakravarty explores representations of the event which has become known in the British imagination as the 'Indian Mutiny' of 1857 in British popular fiction and historiography. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources including diaries, autobiographies and state papers, Chakravarty shows how narratives of the rebellion were inflected by the concerns of colonial policy and by the demands of imperial self-image. He goes on to discuss the wider context of British involvement in India from 1765 to the 1940s, and engages with constitutional debates, administrative measures, and the early nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian novel. Chakravarty approaches the mutiny from the perspectives of postcolonial theory as well as from historical and literary perspectives to show the extent to which the insurrection took hold of the popular imagination in both Britain and India. The book has a broad interdisciplinary appeal and will be of interest to scholars of English literature, British imperial history, modern Indian history and cultural studies. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Primary Sources for 16th-19th Century Studies in Bengal, Orissa, and Bihar Libraries Katharine Smith Diehl, 1971 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: From Sepoy to Subedar James Lunt, 2017-04-07 British military history in India has been amply documented, but From Sepoy to Subedar by Sita Ram is the only published account by an Indian soldier of his experiences serving in the East India Company’s Army. These memoirs cover a span of more than forty years of active service, and provide a fascinating insight into the lives of the Indian soldiers serving under the British. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Causes of the Indian Revolt Sir Sayyid Aḥmad K̲h̲ān̲, 1873 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Our Bones are Scattered Andrew Ward, 2004 This is the first full account of the siege and massacre at Cawnpore. In the maelstrom of India's Great Mutiny of 1857, the European garrison at Cawnpore survived starvation and bombardment only to die brutally on the eve of rescue. To avenge their deaths and reassert imperial will, thousands of Indians were hanged along the British line of march or tied to guns and blown to pieces. Courage, folly, rage, fanaticism, horror, fortitude - all can be found here. But this is not just a saga of bloodshed following upon bloodshed; it is a demonstration of an essential rite of imperial progress. The cycle of massacre and retribution at Cawnpore advanced the empire by drowning out its critics in the fire and brimstone of British vengeance. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Through Persia in Disguise Charles Edward Stewart, 1911 Stewart served with the British military and kept a diary of his professional life, eventually intending to publish it. This volume was edited posthumously by Basil Stewart, with Colonel Stewart's wife contributing a biographical sketch. The editor put the journal into chronological order and added explanatory footnotes. Some contributions by Mrs. Stewart were also included. The appendices contain reprints of three of Colonel Stewart's professional reports on terrain and railways in Central Asia. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Thanksgiving thoughts on the Indian mutiny, a sermon, by a London incumbent, author of an Indian mutiny sermon Indian mutiny, 1859 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Indian Mutiny Julian Spilsbury, 2008-09-18 An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courage The Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and slaughtered their way to Delhi. The tiny British garrison at Lucknow held out against all odds; the one at Cawnpore surrendered only to be betrayed and massacred. Modern Indian accounts call this 'the first war of liberation', but as Julian Spilsbury reveals, 80 per cent of the so-called 'British' forces were from the sub-continent. Sikhs, Gurkhas and Afghans fought alongside small numbers of British soldiers. Together, they faced terrible odds and won. In the process they created a new army that would play a vital role in the Allied forces in both World Wars. Julian Spilsbury weaves the story together from some of the most vivid eyewitness accounts ever written. From the women and children hiding from blood-crazed mobs, to the epic battles that decided the campaign, to the grisly revenge exacted by the British forces, this is a gripping recreation of the greatest crisis of Empire. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Queen Victoria's Wars Stephen M. Miller, 2021-06-17 Offers a revised and updated history of thirteen of the most significant British conflicts during the Victorian period. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Term Paper Resource Guide to Nineteenth-Century World History William T. Walker, 2009-07-08 With this guide, major help for nineteenth-century World History term papers has arrived to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Show students an exciting and easy path to a deep learning experience through original term paper suggestions in standard and alternative formats, including recommended books, websites, and multimedia. Students from high school age to undergraduate can get a jumpstart on assignments with the hundreds of term paper suggestions and research information offered here in an easy-to-use format. Users can quickly choose from the 100 important events, spanning the period from the Haitian Revolution that ended in 1804 to the Boer War of 1899-1902. With this book, the research experience is transformed and elevated. Term Paper Resource Guide to Nineteenth-Century World History is a superb source with which to motivate and educate students who have a wide range of interests and talents. Coverage includes key wars and revolts, independence movements, and theories that continue to have tremendous impact. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Indian Army on the Western Front South Asia Edition George Morton-Jack, 2015-02-24 Recasts the role of the Indian Army on the Western Front, questioning why its performance was traditionally deemed a failure. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst, 2017-08-14 While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history. Seeking to fill some gaps in the historiography, Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst examines the effects of the 1857 Rebellion (long taught in Britain as the 'Indian Mutiny') on debates about the issue of jihad during the British Raj. Morgenstein Fuerst shows that the Rebellion had lasting, pronounced effects on the understanding by their Indian subjects (whether Muslim, Hindu or Sikh) of imperial rule by distant outsiders. For India's Muslims their interpretation of the Rebellion as jihad shaped subsequent discourses, definitions and codifications of Islam in the region. Morgenstein Fuerst concludes by demonstrating how these perceptions of jihad, contextualised within the framework of the 19th century Rebellion, continue to influence contemporary rhetoric about Islam and Muslims in the Indian subcontinent.Drawing on extensive primary source analysis, this unique take on Islamic identities in South Asia will be invaluable to scholars working on British colonial history, India and the Raj, as well as to those studying Islam in the region and beyond. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory Astrid Erll, Ann Rigney, 2012 This collection links the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus in particular is on mediation and remediation as two fundamental aspects of media use, and on the dynamics between them.Key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered? This book first appeared as a hardback volume in the De Gruyter series Media and Cultural Memory Studies. With the present book the original articles are reissued in an affordable paperback edition for graduate students and scholars in the field of Media and Memory Studies. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Sepoy Generals G. W. Forrest, 2008 Biographical studies written while the author was employed as director of records to the Government of India in examining the ancient records in the archives at Bombay, Madras and Calcutta. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India Biswamoy Pati, 2010-02-25 Interdisciplinary in focus, this title explores the areas of gender, colonial fiction, white marginal groups, the tribal movements, and penal laws, and associates them with the event. It presents alternatives views and expands and complicates the conceptual boundaries of the Rebellion. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: A Historical Atlas of South Asia American Geographical Society of New York, 1992 Extensive history, with charts and maps, of South Asia, which includes India, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma (or Myanmar, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: A History of the Indian Mutiny Sir George Forrest, 1904 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Industrial Revolution Enzo George, 2016-07-15 The transition from an agricultural economy to an industrial one in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the West caused one of the great upheavals in the history of the world. Words and images document the people, places, and events caught up in this transformative time. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 William Forbes-Mitchell, 1894 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: World War One in Southeast Asia Heather Streets-Salter, 2017-04-13 An original study of the First World War's impact in Southeast Asia, extending our understanding of the conflict as a global phenomenon. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2 Xavier Guégan, 2013-11-19 This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Ruling the World Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell, 2021-01-07 Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, India and Afghanistan, they reveal how the empire represented a complex series of trade-offs between Parliament's, colonial governors', colonists' and colonised peoples' agendas. They also highlight the compromises that these men made as they adapted their ideals of freedom, civilization and liberalism to the realities of an empire imposed through violence and governed in the interests of Britons. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The Life and Reign of Edward I Robert Benton Seeley, 1872 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Chemical Warfare Agents Timothy T. Marrs, Robert L. Maynard, Frederick Sidell, 2007-05-07 Chemical Warfare Agents, Second Edition has been totally revised since the successful first edition and expanded to about three times the length, with many new chapters and much more in-depth consideration of all the topics. The chapters have been written by distinguished international experts in various aspects of chemical warfare agents and edited by an experienced team to produce a clear review of the field. The book now contains a wealth of material on the mechanisms of action of the major chemical warfare agents, including the nerve agent cyclosarin, formally considered to be of secondary importance, as well as ricin and abrin. Chemical Warfare Agents, Second Edition discusses the physico-chemical properties of chemical warfare agents, their dispersion and fate in the environment, their toxicology and management of their effects on humans, decontamination and protective equipment. New chapters cover the experience gained after the use of sarin to attack travellers on the Tokyo subway and how to deal with the outcome of the deployment of riot control agents such as CS gas. This book provides a comprehensive review of chemical warfare agents, assessing all available evidence regarding the medical, technical and legal aspects of their use. It is an invaluable reference work for physicians, public health planners, regulators and any other professionals involved in this field. Review of the First Edition: What more appropriate time for a title of this scope than in the post 9/11 era? ...a timely, scholarly, and well-written volume which offers much information of immense current and...future benefit. —VETERINARY AND HUMAN TOXICOLOGY |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: India Before the Sepoy Mutiny Miss Corner (Julia), 1891 |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration Sebastian Raj Pender, 2022-05-05 The Cawnpore Well, Lucknow Residency, and Delhi Ridge were sacred places within the British imagination of India. Sanctified by the colonial administration in commemoration of victory over the 'Sepoy Mutiny' of 1857, they were read as emblems of empire which embodied the central tenets of sacrifice, fortitude, and military prowess that underpinned Britain's imperial project. Since independence, however, these sites have been rededicated in honour of the 'First War of Independence' and are thus sacred to the memory of those who revolted against colonial rule, rather than those who saved it. The 1857 Indian Uprising and the Politics of Commemoration tells the story of these and other commemorative landscapes and uses them as prisms through which to view over 150 years of Indian history. Based on extensive archival research from India and Britain, Sebastian Raj Pender traces the ways in which commemoration responded to the demands of successive historical moments by shaping the events of 1857 from the perspective of the present. By telling the history of India through the transformation of mnemonic space, this study shows that remembering the past is always a political act. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: 1857 War of Independence Or Clash of Civilizations? Salahuddin Malik, 2008 This study offers an in-depth perspective into the British psyche at the height of Victorian England by delving into the serious debates which ensued in the wake of the revolt in India. The result is analytical reflections on British imperial, evangelical, economic, political, military, and moral thinking. The book destroys a number of myths which had been carefully nurtured in Britain about the popular acceptance of British rule in India. Furthermore, it opens a new vista in the study of the Indian 'mutiny'. To date it has been viewed as everything except a Muslim rebellion, while the reports from the field indicated that this was its true nature, first and last. The book also opens a new chapter on the degree to which Christian evangelism had taken hold of the British imperial effort in India, and how it used the government machinery to expand and advance missionary work in the South Asian colony. It also reveals the degree to which Christians had become intolerant of other faiths.--BOOK JACKET. |
| sepoy mutiny primary sources: Warfare and Society in British India, 1757–1947 Ashutosh Kumar, Kaushik Roy, 2022-12-30 This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The chapters in the volume focus on technology, logistics, and state building. The present volume highlights the salient features of expansion and consolidation of imperial control over the subcontinent, and ultimate demise of the Raj. Further, it turns the spotlight on to subaltern challenges to imperialism as well as the role of non-combatants in warfare. The volume: • Deals with both conventional and guerrilla conflicts and focuses on the frontiers (both North-West and North-East, including Burma); • Looks at the army as an institution rather than present a chronological account of military operations, which highlights the complex and tortuous relationship between combat institution, colonial state, and Indian society; • Integrates top-down approaches in military and strategic studies with the bottom-up perspectives and discusses on how the conduct of war (organisation and technology) is related to the economic, societal, and cultural impact of war. A rich account of the British ‘Army in India’, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of South Asian history, military history, political history, colonialism, and the British Empire. |
Sepoy - Wikipedia
Sepoy (/ ˈsiːpɔɪ /), related to sipahi, is a term denoting professional Indian infantrymen, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the Maratha.
Sepoy - World History Encyclopedia
Nov 21, 2022 · A sepoy was an Indian soldier in the armies of various states and European trading companies in the Indian subcontinent and then, from the second half of the 19th century, in the …
Indian Rebellion of 1857 | History, Causes, Effects, Summary,
6 days ago · Indian Rebellion of 1857, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–59. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British East …
Why Did the Sepoys Rebel in 1857? - ThoughtCo
Apr 29, 2025 · 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 …
The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857: The Uprising That Shook the British …
Jun 4, 2025 · On May 10, 1857, the simmering tensions boiled over in Meerut, a key military cantonment in northern India. Following the imprisonment of several sepoys who refused to use …
Sepoy Rebellion - (AP World History: Modern) - Fiveable
Sparked by discontent among Indian soldiers, or sepoys, the rebellion highlighted widespread resentment against colonial policies and practices, leading to significant changes in British …
SEPOY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SEPOY is a native of India employed as a soldier by a European power.
Sepoy Mutiny: Big Trouble for the British East India Company
Since the army was established in 1765, only British soldiers could become officers. However, the majority of enlisted men were locals. They were called peons or sepoys. During the 19th century, …
Overview of the Sepoy - ThoughtCo
A sepoy was the name given to an Indian infantryman employed by the armies of the British East India Company from 1700 to 1857 and later by the British Indian Army from 1858 to 1947.
Sepoy Mutiny Against British Rule | EBSCO Research Starters
The Sepoy Mutiny, also referred to as the Indian Rebellion of 1857, was a significant uprising against British colonial rule in India, initiated by Indian soldiers known as sepoys.
Sepoy - Wikipedia
Sepoy (/ ˈsiːpɔɪ /), related to sipahi, is a term denoting professional Indian infantrymen, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the Maratha.
Sepoy - World History Encyclopedia
Nov 21, 2022 · A sepoy was an Indian soldier in the armies of various states and European trading companies in the Indian subcontinent and then, from the second half of the 19th …
Indian Rebellion of 1857 | History, Causes, Effects, Summary,
6 days ago · Indian Rebellion of 1857, widespread but unsuccessful rebellion against British rule in India in 1857–59. Begun in Meerut by Indian troops (sepoys) in the service of the British …
Why Did the Sepoys Rebel in 1857? - ThoughtCo
Apr 29, 2025 · 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 …
The Sepoy Mutiny of 1857: The Uprising That Shook the British …
Jun 4, 2025 · On May 10, 1857, the simmering tensions boiled over in Meerut, a key military cantonment in northern India. Following the imprisonment of several sepoys who refused to …
Sepoy Rebellion - (AP World History: Modern) - Fiveable
Sparked by discontent among Indian soldiers, or sepoys, the rebellion highlighted widespread resentment against colonial policies and practices, leading to significant changes in British …
SEPOY Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of SEPOY is a native of India employed as a soldier by a European power.
Sepoy Mutiny: Big Trouble for the British East India Company
Since the army was established in 1765, only British soldiers could become officers. However, the majority of enlisted men were locals. They were called peons or sepoys. During the 19th …
Overview of the Sepoy - ThoughtCo
A sepoy was the name given to an Indian infantryman employed by the armies of the British East India Company from 1700 to 1857 and later by the British Indian Army from 1858 to 1947.
Sepoy Mutiny Against British Rule | EBSCO Research Starters
The Sepoy Mutiny, also referred to as the Indian Rebellion of 1857, was a significant uprising against British colonial rule in India, initiated by Indian soldiers known as sepoys.
