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Mind Map by jakecampling, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jakecampling
almost 11 years ago
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The Indian mutiny - 1857
- Causes
- Religion
- between caste
contact on railways
- Brahmins made up a large
amount of the sepoys
- Brahmins made up a large
amount of the sepoys
- The new rifle cartridges had been
greased with pork and beef fat
- SPARK
- SPARK
- between caste
contact on railways
- Religion
- 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
- 85 sepoys were court-martialled
for refusing to use cartridges
- 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
- made Indians lick
bloody buildings clean
- British to Indian ratio in
the army was reduced to 3:1
- More loyal Sikhs were recruited
- The British vicious revenge
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