Researching ImperialismEssay Preview: Researching ImperialismReport this essayResearching ImperialismFor 101 years the British East India Company ruled over India. Also known as the B.E.I.C., the company was established to enforce trade between India and Britain and had and army of Indian soldiers called Sepoys to “maintain control during their trading operations” . Along with enforcing trade the B.E.I.C. slowly gained control over India and many Indians began to resent British rule . The Indians, either devout Hindus or Muslims thought that Britain would try to convert them to Christianity. Along with that Britain had gained two-thirds of India’s land and their imperialistic efforts affected Indian life with technology such as the telegraph and railways which aroused Indian suspicion , missionary efforts and land ownership . Sepoys in the British army got little respect and were considered inferior to British soldiers. They were given a lower salary than British soldiers of the same rank and were only able to move a few ranks higher to Subedar. As a result of the British takeover and racism “there was an incredible amount of tension that only needed a small spark to set off a huge revolt” .
The Sepoy Mutiny, also known as the Revolt of 1857, eventually broke out over the greased cartridges of the new Enfield rifles in 1857. In order to load the guns, the cartridges had to be bitten off. Rumor broke out that they were greased with pork and beef grease. This was a problem because the Sepoys were both Muslim and Hindu. Muslims don’t eat pork and Hindus consider cows to be god and therefore don’t eat beef . The soldiers in the Meerut Cantonment refused to use the new ammunition and were sentenced to ten years of imprisonment by Britain. Several were hanged. Soon there was a rebellion, Sepoys killed their British officers and broke open the prisons. The Meerut Mutiny was the start of the Revolt of 1857. The next day the Sepoys marched to Delhi, the capital of India, and together
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They broke into the National Post office, and there they were met with a mob. They took up revolvers, threw weapons and burnt the premises, a crime that they were acquitted of. There are no records where on this website we found the last recorded case of a terrorist incident against a Sepoy civilian after the Revolution. It was only after the Revolution as the rebels were beginning their second revolvers-a rifle of different calibre-that this last case is known. That same year, the rebels attacked the Delhi post office, killing over 80 Sepoys and capturing the post officer responsible for the incident.
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The second day was a civil war. A young Sepoy, named Dhamir, took part in a revolt because he was in charge of a Post Office. He came over to Delhi and was picked up by the Union Army and then the British Army. He was executed. He was told the day he would be executed that the postmaster would be sent to Delhi. He said, ‘If I don’t come back, then what a joke. My guard has come back here.’ But the postmaster said, ‘We should go to the post office the next morning and I don’t want you hanging, and I’m afraid there won’t be enough food for you.’ ‘He told me you had seen that in action. Here I came, I came down, and there had been a revolt.”
The rebel and his followers were caught from Delhi and sentenced to death. They made use of both improvised explosive devices and improvised bombs and in the middle of the rebellion were killed. The next day, the Union Army took over the post and began firing bombs on the Sepoys. When the rebels were still in Delhi, thousands of Sepoys were killed and hundreds of thousands of British soldiers and civilians remained in India, and the British fought their way to India.
The British soldiers of India had to deal with the rebels and the soldiers of Delhi. After nearly two years of fighting they were finally defeated and the Sepoys were captured in a bloody civil war, and their execution. The British soldiers had to deal with the Sepoys then and have their executions.
It was at this stage that the British decided after years of civil war to take over the posts of the post office. When they received their orders for their army, they placed their men in the rank of lieutenant-colonel and their rank was from sergeant colonel to lieutenant-colonel until they were promoted to general. This process took about two years.
The second day that Sepoys started to march, the soldiers of Delhi began the first night of spring, as ordered by Queen Victoria, in their usual manner. The next morning the two armies assembled at the post office of the newly re-created Indian Autonomous Republic. They marched and killed or wounded several hundred (100 more) Sepoys. This next day the