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State policy became more conservative and politically defensive. Updated on NovemThe Sepoy Mutiny was a violent and very bloody uprising against British rule in India in 1857. The army was reorganized to improve British surveillance. Afterwards, the British came to doubt the possibilities of a rapid social transformation and treated their Indian subjects with increasing suspicion. The events of 1857 marked a watershed in Indo-British relations.

A major highlight of this revolt was that it abolished the East India company in India. The revolt lasted for a year and was unsuccessful yet it brought the changes that India needed for years. The Revolt of 1857 was first started on May 10, 1857, by sepoy mutiny in Meerut. New Enfield rifles have just been introduced. The Indian Mutiny: 1857 by Saul David Short Note on Revolt of 1857. Mangal is a sepoy, a private in the British army. The vehemence of the civil rebellion reflected the anxieties of aristocracies and peasant communities at threats posed to them by aggressive policies of westernization, especially under Lord Dalhousie. So declares Mangal Pandey in The Rising, an epic new film about the so-called Indian Mutiny of 1857. The causes of the mutiny (by no means the first in British Indian military history) lay in attempts to impose British-style army discipline onto Indian warrior traditions-the celebrated issue of cartridges greased with animal fat being symptomatic of wider problems. Their mutiny encouraged rebellion by considerable numbers of Indian civilians in a broad belt of. It took until December 1857 for Sir Colin Campbell's army to reoccupy the key strategic points along the Ganges valley and the last vestiges of armed resistance were not stamped out before the spring of 1859. In May 1857 soldiers of the Bengal army shot their British officers, and marched on Delhi. Existing ‘loyalist’ forces were unable to quell the rebellion and reinforcements had to be called from China. It encouraged a widespread civil revolt against the institutions of British rule. The mutiny spread down the Ganges valley-to Agra, Cawnpore, and Lucknow-and into central India. On, sepoys of the Bengal army shot their British officers and marched on Delhi to restore the aged Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah, to power. The siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857.