Sepoy Mutiny

The Great Rebellion

The 1857 and 1858 insurrection by Muslim and Hindu mercenaries in the British army that spread throughout northern and central India before finally being crushed.

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     Britain ruled India until 1947 until Indian Independence was gained.

     1858- India was ruled by British Parliament in London and administered by a tiny, all white civil service in India

     Strict job discrimination and social segregation

     British Women:
          played a big role after the opening of the Suez Canal. It made it easier and Muslim people  for civil servants and businessman to bring their wives and children with them to India.

          Large houses

          Small minority of them went further and were known as "The White Women's Burden," attempting to improve the lives of Indian women.


English was soon taught in school systems

Irrigation projects for agriculture the began, the world's third largest railroad network for good communications and large tea and jute plantations boasted the world economy


With a well-educated bureaucracy who now spoke English as well, this created a more unified and powerful state
Laws Hindu and Muslim people were constantly conquered by Muslim and Mongol invaders. It was like Europe with its many states and varieties of Christianity had been conquered and united.

1885 - Hindu Indian National Congress demands were increasing for the equality and self-government