The Indian Rebellion of 1857

In this video, I look at the causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857

[ThenNow]

Correction: I say independence was almost 200 years later when I should have said almost 100 years. Apologies!

[chandruae]

The Battle of Plassey DID NOT secure the British monopoly over India. It only gave them control over a small portion of Bengal in Eastern India. The British had to fight 3 wars later with the Marathas, the de facto rulers of most of India at the time, and it was finally during the 3rd Anglo-Maratha war in 1818 that the British had control over a large portion of India.

[beb]

This video does not do justice to the horrific conditions during the siege of Delhi' (the Red Fort).
I have read the book "Mutiny at the Red Fort" . (written in 1956)
Four months of mud and disease, of incompetence and heroism.
The smell of the corpses, the myriad of flies, the swamps and the constant shell fire.

[dks]

1. The beef/pork rumour was just that, a rumour. The enfield round used lubricant made of beeswax.
2. 1858-1947 is NOT "almost 200 years later". Ita not even a 100 years later. It's 90 years later.

[sharadjain]

You smartly defended British atrocities
At 4:11 you mentioned executed by canon but you didn't mention Howit was like this George Carter Stent described the process as follows
The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen.

[canadianclassics]

Great video just bought a 1963 61 and 67 Snider Enfield very cool learning some of their history as I know not all served in India

[pxachy_skiies]

I- who else is here for homework or a test?

[WendyDaCanuck]

The Enfield cartridges issued to India were not greased with animal fat they were greased with vegetable fat. This beef/pork fat grease was a rumour that has never been successfully quashed. The British took representatives from several battalions of native infantry to examine the cartridges production at the arsenal in Bangalore and they were much relieved but the army in general wouldn’t believe it. The British even offered to let the sepoys grease the cartridges themselves at one point but it didn’t matter. Once the rumour was out there it wouldn’t go away.

[finnhagan]

The only reason why india was supposidly given its indipendance was cos there was nothing left of it after the british had finished with it . Same time and reason with palistine.

[The_Honourable_Company]

Just to clarify, the proper name was not the British east India company (as it was chartered in 1600, and Britain was created as a union in 1707) but it was called the
"Honourable East India Company"

[idontknow_whattowritesooo]

im a muslim and FYI in 2:39 we don't put halo's around pigs heads as they are considered unclean in our religon

[mrcool]

If only india was successful in 1857 then India would get independence at 1857 itself and British colonsim would never even happen. India would be even more United and there would be no Pakistan or Bangladesh

[anujkaushal]

Hi...do you mind if I use your video on my public history blog as an add-on to my introduction page?

[CosmoExplosion]

The difference between 1947 and 1857 is 90 years. It's definitely not "almost 200 years"

[WendyDaCanuck]

Mangal Pandey was not an officer. More in accuracies. He was a private

[philipnorris]

The Mutiny, while being a bit wider than a purely military revolt, was not a national revolution, as the people of India had very little national awareness at that time; the idea of a self-governing Indian nation-state had not taken root. It was the emergence of an educated, politically aware Indian middle class that was to bring about the independence movement, and they were, in the main, a product of the post-Mutiny Raj.

[annasofiadyerjalas]

100 years later. Not 200. Except for that, nicely done.

[piyushjaiswal]

2: 10 - hindus those days we're extremely conservative. British marrying their women would have been a matter of great shame for them. Maybe the tribals and others but not the aryan caste Hindus. The white skin supremacy is a myth
It was and is all about lineage.

[piyalisaha]

Thnx for this educational video. This really helped me a lot.

[billballbuster]

It was basically a Muslim Jihad centered on the Muslim State of Oudh which had just been annexed by the East India Company in 1856. The first Regiments of the EiC to mutiny were Muslim, raised in Oudh, the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry and 20th Native Infantry at Meerut and the 2nd Bengal Light Cavalry at Cawnpoor. Hindu regiments joined the mutiny and this prompted several Hindu leaders in Delhi, Cawnpoor and Jhansi to join in a rebellion. Their private armies bolstering the numbers of the mutineers. The State Oudh then joined the rebellion and besieged the EIC Garrison at Lucknow.