A rebellion older than 1857 On a visit to the Vellore Fort in Tamil Nadu, Taran finds out that the site holds more stories than an early soldiers’ revolt. Published - December 06, 2024 05:30 pm IST ...

The Revolt of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857-58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion ...

As in the case of the 1857 uprising, the perceived harm to religious practices was the trigger for the Vellore Revolt, which broke out in the early hours of July 10, 1806. Another similarity ...

The Revolt of 1857 is also called the Sepoy Mutiny or India's First War of Independence. It was started on 10 May 1857 at Meerut, as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army.

History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-58 (London, 3 vols.: WH Allen, 1864); Tapti Roy. The Politics of a Popular Uprising: Bundelkhand in 1857 (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994); Mark Thornhill.

Bahadur Shah Zafar, Mangal Pandey, Rani Laxmibai, Begum Hazrat Mahal, Nana Sahib, Liyakat Ali, Tantya Tope, Kunwar Singh, Bhakt Khan and Khan Bahadur Khan Rohilla were the men behind the 1857 Revolt.