Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Indian mutiny - 1857
- Causes
- Religion
- between caste
contact on railways
- Brahmins made up a large
amount of the sepoys
- The new rifle cartridges had been
greased with pork and beef fat
- SPARK
- Key Events
- 85 sepoys were court-martialled
for refusing to use cartridges
- Mutineers declared the Mughal
Emperor ruler of India
- The mutiny spread through Deli + North India
- 400 British people were
tricked and then massacred
- Consequences
- The British vicious revenge
- made Indians lick
bloody buildings clean
- many were hanged
- whole villages were massacred
- Some were loaded into
cannons and blown up
- British to Indian ratio in
the army was reduced to 3:1
- More loyal Sikhs were recruited