WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -British sources-both then and now-often refer to the 1857 events as The Sepoy Mutiny. They focus primarily on the discontent of sepoys in the East India Company army and their rebellion against their commanding officers.

Detailed explanation-2: -The immediate result of the mutiny was a general housecleaning of the Indian administration. The East India Company was abolished in favour of the direct rule of India by the British government.

Detailed explanation-3: -An uprising in several sepoy companies of the Bengal army was sparked by the issue of new gunpowder cartridges for the Enfield rifle in February 1857. Loading the Enfield often required tearing open the greased cartridge with one’s teeth, and many sepoys believed that the cartridges were greased with cow and pig fat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer and Explanation: After the Sepoy Mutiny, the British, under Queen Victoria, replaced the British East Indian Company as a governing body, choosing to govern India more directly. This eventually became known as the British Raj.

Detailed explanation-5: -The 1857-8 Sepoy Mutiny (aka Sepoy Rebellion, Indian Mutiny, The Uprising or First Indian War of Independence) was a failed rebellion against the rule of the British East India Company (EIC) in India.