HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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V D Sarkar
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V A Smith
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L Mukherjee
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Chabbra
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the northern parts of India in 1857, after a hundred years of conquest and administration, the English East India Company faced a massive rebellion that started in May 1857 and threatened the Company’s very presence in India.
Detailed explanation-2: -The rebellion began when sepoys refused to use new rifle cartridges, which were thought to be lubricated with grease containing a mixture of pigs’ and cows’ lard and thus religiously impure for Muslims and Hindus.
Detailed explanation-3: -The First War of Indian Independence also referred to as the Sepoy Mutiny and the largest part of the blame for the mutiny has been assigned to the soldiers or the Sepoys. This is because, by all accounts, the mutiny started with the Sepoys and was largely driven by them.