INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vellore Mutiny, outbreak against the British on July 10, 1806, by sepoys (Indian troops employed by the British) at Vellore (now in Tamil Nadu state, southern India).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Vellore mutiny was suppressed by General Gillesby.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lasting just a day but costing around 400 lives, the Vellore Mutiny was a signal that dissent against the British was beginning to gain hold. It happened before daybreak on July 10, 1806-much before the ferocious Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 that is widely considered to be India’s First War of Independence.

Detailed explanation-4: -V D Savarkar called Vellore Mutiny as the ‘prelude to the first war of Indian Independence’. Vellore Mutiny was the revolt held in 1806. The mutiny was against the newly introduce dress code of soldiers by the British in India.