Today we are going brush up our history ie , The first war of independence (1857).
he First War of Indian Independence is a term predominantly used in India to describe the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It is also known as the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Rebellion, the Sepoy Mutiny the Revolt of 1857, and the Uprising of 1857.The event challenged and ended the power and control of British East Indian Company in India (It was replaced by nine decades of British colonial rule, known as the British Raj, until, in 1947, the India subcontinent became the independent states of India and Pakistan).During and after the war atrocities were committed by both sides. At the war's end the British showed little clemency to the insurgents and executed many thousands of them
The Indian fight for independence against British rule began as a mutiny by sepoys of the British East India Company army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into an insurgency largely confined to the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region. The war posed a considerable threat to Company power in that region, and the insurgence was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. Other regions of Company-controlled India — such as Bengal, the Bombay Presidency, and the Madras Presidency — remained largely calm. In Punjab, the Sikh princes backed the Company by providing both soldiers and support. The large princely states of Hyderabad, Mysore, Travancore, and Kashmir, as well as the smaller ones of Rajputana, did not join the insurgents. In some regions, such as Oudh, the war took on the attributes of a patriotic revolt against European presence.[citation needed]
Insurgent leaders, such as the Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, are now heroes in India. The war led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. It also led the British to reorganise the army, the financial system and the administration in India. India was thereafter directly governed by the British Crown as the British Raj
Most historians, British as well as Indian, have described and dismissed the rising of 1857 as a ‘Sepoy Munity’ or at best ‘The Indian Mutiny’. Indian revolution is on the other hand, and national minded leaders thinkers have regarded it as a planned and organised olitical and military rising aimed at destroying the British power in India.
he First War of Indian Independence is a term predominantly used in India to describe the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It is also known as the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Sepoy Rebellion, the Sepoy Mutiny the Revolt of 1857, and the Uprising of 1857.The event challenged and ended the power and control of British East Indian Company in India (It was replaced by nine decades of British colonial rule, known as the British Raj, until, in 1947, the India subcontinent became the independent states of India and Pakistan).During and after the war atrocities were committed by both sides. At the war's end the British showed little clemency to the insurgents and executed many thousands of them
The Indian fight for independence against British rule began as a mutiny by sepoys of the British East India Company army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into an insurgency largely confined to the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region. The war posed a considerable threat to Company power in that region, and the insurgence was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. Other regions of Company-controlled India — such as Bengal, the Bombay Presidency, and the Madras Presidency — remained largely calm. In Punjab, the Sikh princes backed the Company by providing both soldiers and support. The large princely states of Hyderabad, Mysore, Travancore, and Kashmir, as well as the smaller ones of Rajputana, did not join the insurgents. In some regions, such as Oudh, the war took on the attributes of a patriotic revolt against European presence.[citation needed]
Insurgent leaders, such as the Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi, are now heroes in India. The war led to the dissolution of the East India Company in 1858. It also led the British to reorganise the army, the financial system and the administration in India. India was thereafter directly governed by the British Crown as the British Raj
Most historians, British as well as Indian, have described and dismissed the rising of 1857 as a ‘Sepoy Munity’ or at best ‘The Indian Mutiny’. Indian revolution is on the other hand, and national minded leaders thinkers have regarded it as a planned and organised olitical and military rising aimed at destroying the British power in India.
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