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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 Dum Dum Arsenal was a British military facility located near the town of Dum Dum in modern West Bengal, India. [1]The arsenal was at the centre of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, caused in part by rumours that the paper cartridges for their muzzle-loading rifles, which they were expected to bite open, were greased with pig lard (a problem for Muslims) or cow fat (a problem for Hindus).
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).
It was part of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. On 10 May 1857, local Muslims under the leadership of Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki gathered at Thana Bhawan , a small town in the Shamli district in current-day Uttar Pradesh , around 120 km from Delhi , to stage a violent protest against Company rule in 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).
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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 Indian War of Independence may refer to . Indian Rebellion of 1857, rebellion in India against British rule sometimes termed the First War of Indian Independence; India in World War II, the forces of the Azad Hind Indian National Army and the German Free India Legion rebelling against the forces of the British Raj