The Sepoy Minti Rebellion was a very bloody and violent rebellion against the British occupation of India in 1857. It is also known by other names: the Indian Rebellion, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, or the Indian Revolt of 1857. In Britain and the West it was almost always depicted as a series of bloodthirsty uprisings that spurred on. Lies about religious sensitivity.

In India it was viewed in a completely different way, and the events of 1857 AD were considered the first real outbreak of the independence movement against British rule, and the uprising was put down, but the methods used by the British were so cruel that many in the Western world were insulted, and it was among the common punishment to link Rebels with the mouth of the cannon, then shoot and completely obliterate the victim.

A famous American illustrated magazine entitled (Ballou's Pictorial), published a full-page drawing showing preparations for the execution in its issue of October 3, 1857 AD. In the illustration, a rebel man is depicted chained to a British cannon awaiting their imminent execution, while others gather to witness the horrific spectacle.

By 1850, the East India Company was in control of most of India. The East India Company, a private company that first entered India for trade in the seventeenth century, eventually turned into a diplomatic and military company, and employed large numbers of native soldiers, known as sepoys, by the company to maintain order and defend their trade, special forces were commanded by British officers.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, southerners tended to take pride in their military ability, and they showed great loyalty to their British officers, but in the 1830s and 1840s tensions began to arise, and a number of Indians began to suspect that the British intended to Christianize the Indian population. Increasing numbers of Christian missionaries began to arrive in India.

There was also a general feeling that the English officers were losing contact with the Indian forces under their command, under a British policy called the Doctrine of Slip, and the East India Company was in control of the Indian states whose ruler had died without an heir, the system was much offended, and with the accession of the India Company Eastern to the Indian states in the 1840s, Indian soldiers working for the company began to feel offended.

The traditional story of the rebellion is that the introduction of a new cartridge for the Enfield rifle caused a lot of problems, the cartridges were wrapped in laminated paper making it easy to load the cartridges into rifle barrels, and rumors began to circulate that the grease used from pigs and cows, which would be offensive to Muslims and Hindus, was not It is doubtful that the conflict over new rifle cartridges triggered the uprising in 1857, but the truth is that social and political reforms paved the way for what happened.

On March 29, 1857, in Barakpur, Mangal Pandey fired the first spark of the uprising, and his unit was in the Bengali army, as he refused to use the new rifle cartridges, and Pandey rebelled and shot the British sergeant and lieutenant, and in the quarrel, British forces surrounded him and shot him in the chest, But he survived and was tried and executed on April 8, 1857 AD, with the spread of the rebellion, the British began calling the rebels, and it should be noted here that Pandey is considered a hero in India.

He was portrayed as a freedom fighter in films and even appeared on an Indian postage stamp. Throughout the month of May and June 1857 more and more Indian units rebelled against the British. Sepoy units in southern India remained loyal, but in the north, many units of the Bengali army turned on the British. The uprising became very violent, and a series of incidents occurred in the camps of Meerut and Delhi, Cawnpore and Lucknow, and fighting continued in some places until 1858 AD.

But the British eventually gained control as the rebels were captured, and many were executed. Outraged by events such as the massacre of women and children at the Siege of Cawnpore, some British officers believed that killing the rebels was more humane in some cases. Cannon then cannon firing Even gruesome executions became widely known even in America, many American newspapers reported on violence in India, and the East India Company had been active in India for nearly 250 years.

But the violence in the uprising of 1857 led to the British government dissolving the company and taking direct control of India, and after the fighting in 1857-1858 AD, India was legally considered a colony of Britain, ruled by the Viceroy, and the uprising was officially announced on July 8, 1859 AD and there is no doubt In that the atrocities were committed by both parties.

In 1870 the British government formalized its role as an imperial power, and Queen Victoria, at the behest of Benjamin Disraeli, declared before Parliament that her Indian subjects were "happy under my rule." Victoria added Empress of India alongside her royal title, and Queen Victoria formally proclaimed As the Empress of India, Britain ruled India for the twentieth century. When the Indian independence movement gained momentum in the twentieth century, the events of the 1857 AD revolution were considered an early battle for independence, and individuals like Mangal Pandey were hailed as early national heroes of the Indian independence movement.