HISTORY
IMPERIALISM ASIA
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Signed a Treaty with the British
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Ate tacos
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Rebelled against the British
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Invented curry powder
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In its most common application, sepoy was the term used in the British Indian Army and, earlier, in the army of the British East India Company, for an infantry private. A cavalry trooper was a sowar.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sepoys, or local soldiers hired by vast empires, played an integral role in the historical rule of the Indian subcontinent. They enforced order in the Mughal Empire and protected the territory of the French East India Company and British East India Company as these colonial powers expanded their influence.
Detailed explanation-4: -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 mi northeast of Delhi.
Detailed explanation-5: -British nomenclature Karl Marx was the first Western scholar to call the events of 1857 a “national revolt", although he used the term Sepoy Revolt to describe them.