Sepoy Rebellion Compare And Contrast How India Governed Before And After 1857
Outline the events of the Sepoy rebellion. Compare and contrast how India was governed before and after 1857.
India was once under the British rule in direct or indirect way. After the East India
Company was founded in 1600, British has spent 250 years taking over the colonies
and trade of the Dutch, repelled the French, and beat back Indian challenges. The
Mughal empire was decayed, and by 1858 British obtained the vast continent from the
Mughal emperor’s dethronement. British controlled India in their rule since then, until
the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857, although British still controlled the India after the rebelli-
on, but in different ways. This essay will out line the events of the Sepoy Rebellion,
compare …show more content…
According to Bulliet et al (2009,p608), there were three main rea-
sons led to this event. Firstly , the Bengali sepoys used to be the main sepoys under
the EIC rule for decades of years. However after 1848, the EIC began to recruit differ-
ent ethnic groups to the army, and this caused the discontented of the Bengali sepoys.
Secondly, the EIC offended the Hindus religion. In 1856, there was a new law which
permitted ‘service assignment overseas in the growing Indian Ocean empire’ (Bulliet
et al. 2009,p608), the high-caste Hindus strongly against this law due to their religion,
because they were not allowed to travel on the ocean. The last reason of the rebellion
was also caused by a religious issue. In 1857 the EIC replaced the standard musket to
Enfiled rifle, which was more accurate, but the problem was that the soldiers need to
use their teeth to open the ammunition cartridges. However those cartridges covered
with cattle and pigs’ fat. Most of the soldiers were Hindus and Muslims, ‘Fat from cattle offended Hindus; fat from pigs offended Muslims’ (Bulliet et al, 2009 p610). As a result
of those three reasons, the ‘Sepoy Rebellion’ began in 1857, then it was put down
India was once under the British rule in direct or indirect way. After the East India
Company was founded in 1600, British has spent 250 years taking over the colonies
and trade of the Dutch, repelled the French, and beat back Indian challenges. The
Mughal empire was decayed, and by 1858 British obtained the vast continent from the
Mughal emperor’s dethronement. British controlled India in their rule since then, until
the Sepoy Rebellion in 1857, although British still controlled the India after the rebelli-
on, but in different ways. This essay will out line the events of the Sepoy Rebellion,
compare …show more content…
According to Bulliet et al (2009,p608), there were three main rea-
sons led to this event. Firstly , the Bengali sepoys used to be the main sepoys under
the EIC rule for decades of years. However after 1848, the EIC began to recruit differ-
ent ethnic groups to the army, and this caused the discontented of the Bengali sepoys.
Secondly, the EIC offended the Hindus religion. In 1856, there was a new law which
permitted ‘service assignment overseas in the growing Indian Ocean empire’ (Bulliet
et al. 2009,p608), the high-caste Hindus strongly against this law due to their religion,
because they were not allowed to travel on the ocean. The last reason of the rebellion
was also caused by a religious issue. In 1857 the EIC replaced the standard musket to
Enfiled rifle, which was more accurate, but the problem was that the soldiers need to
use their teeth to open the ammunition cartridges. However those cartridges covered
with cattle and pigs’ fat. Most of the soldiers were Hindus and Muslims, ‘Fat from cattle offended Hindus; fat from pigs offended Muslims’ (Bulliet et al, 2009 p610). As a result
of those three reasons, the ‘Sepoy Rebellion’ began in 1857, then it was put down