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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the company's army in the garrison town of Meerut , 40 miles (64 km ...
The background to the Indian Mutiny, or the Indian Rebellion of 1857 as it is also referred to, is complex and has its origins largely with the Hindu members of the British East India Company Army of the Presidency of Bengal (although the British view after the mutiny was that it was largely driven by Muslim members).
Rai Ahmad Khan Kharal [a] (c. 1776 – 21 September 1857), [2] [3] known as the Nawab of Jhamra, [4] was a Punjabi Muslim chieftain of the Kharal tribe who led a rebellion in the Bar region of Punjab against the British East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. [5] [6] He is considered as a martyr and folk hero in Punjabi ...
A timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on the tenth of May 1857 in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the Upper Gangetic plain and Central India.
The siege of Delhi was a decisive conflict of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.The rebellion against the authority of the East India Company was widespread through much of Northern India, but was essentially sparked by the mass uprising by the sepoys of the Bengal Army, which the company had itself raised in its Bengal Presidency (which actually covered a vast area from Assam to borders of Delhi).
Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi was the commander-in-chief and Rashid Ahmad Gangohi was the Qadi of the state, but soon after the killing of Muhammad Zamin, the situation turned in favour of the East India Company. The arrest of Bahadur Shah Zafar, one of the main leaders of the Rebellion of 1857, followed.
The Battle of Badli-ki-Serai was fought early in the Indian Rebellion of 1857, or First War of Indian Independence as it has since been termed in Indian histories of the events. A British and Gurkha force defeated a force of sepoys who had rebelled against the British East India Company .
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