the indian sepoys were using greased catridges which wer doubted to contain the fat of cow , which is sacred to the hindus and pig which was forbidden to the muslims... Mangal Pandey a brahmin soldier refused to do so and he was humiliated in front of the people and so he killed an english general and so he was hanged for his act.. this spead like fire in india which led to the revolt of 1857... but the first answerer has said that pigs are the sacred animal of the muslims... this is wrong they are just forbidden...
2006-11-03 19:00:22
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answer #1
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answered by q te man 1
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The incident of mangal pandey was the match which started the fire works. But the preparation for the battle against east India company was planned in Delhi by the various kings and Nawabs whos kingdoms were annexed under false pretense.
Rani of Jhansi, tantia tope, and others met Bahadur shah zafar the then mogul emperor and made him the leader of the united army. The message was passed on to the soldiers of East India company also. It was done by passing rotis. A date was set which was about a month later than the date on which the Sepoy's started their revolt. The coalition was caught unawares and they had to join in. so the entire revolt was done in dis organized manner. It was easily defeated and all the participants were killed
2006-11-03 19:27:46
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answered by Brahmanda 7
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The revolt of 1857, popularly widespread as "the 1st war of Independence", burst via many motives. The Britishers, who have been the rulers of the then India, did no longer look after its progression. They have been fascinated to empty the materials of the rustic. For this, they formulated many rules, political, comparatively cheap and non secular. Lord Dalhousie formulated a coverage called " Doctrine of Lapse", in accordance to which the princely states wold be annexed to the empire, if the top of such states did no longer have offspring. This resulted huge apprehensions between princes that the empire replaced into attempting to snatch their provinces a technique or the different. The Britishers drained most of the materials of India by skill of levying huge taxes on the close by industries, because of the fact of which the Indian people grew rivelry against the British. Religiously, the creation of Enfield Catridges, that have been lined with the fat of cow, that's pious for Hindus and pig, that's hated by skill of the Muslims, arose anger between the warriors as they had to discover the coat with their mouth. This creation widened the apprehension of the religious people who the British replaced into attempting to humiliate Hindus and Muslims. ordinarily, those are the main properly known reasons for revolt of 1857.
2016-11-27 02:24:15
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answered by clance 3
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the british introduced the enfield rifle,with greased cartridges .
the cartridges were rumoured to be greased with the pigs and cows fat.
the caps had to be bitten of to be used . both hindu and muslim refused it and were humiliated for doing so.and mangal pandey called upon his fellow sepoys and revolted
2013-09-25 01:49:32
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answered by Anonymous
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The preparation of the cartridges & rifles with the fats of pigs & cows which are holy animals for the hindus & the muslims.
2006-11-03 18:47:40
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answer #5
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answered by FIRE 2
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