What was the result of the Sepoy Muting in India in 1857?

Question

How did it change the nature between Britain and the Indian subcontinent?

Answer 1

lets forget the wikipedia definition of the importance of the uprising.

Essentially it highlighted the fact that the british in India were growing lazy and withdrawing from the population creating a sense of overlordship which many resented. The Sepoy's were amoung British best and strongest allies until they rebelled - why? because of cultural insensitivities of the british.
The result (as mentioned above) was the removal of the East India Company from power and the installation of Parliaments rule in India (Queen Victoria also added to her titles "Grand Empress of India"). The aftermath led to a growth in strength of british forces, and harsher laws for native indian peoples. Additionally it sowed the seeds for the later anti-british movements.

British attitudes toward the indians changed dramatically as the idea of india as a safe place with nice people was replaced with the portrayal of Indians as harsh, murderous and barbaric people who NEEDED ruling. The indians were, as a result, subject to a good deal of discrimination.

Please note that most of the "stuff" on the net about atrocities commited by the indians are pretty accurate - BUT the british gave as good as they got - eventually capturing mutineers and tying them to cannons.. BOOM. not a pretty picture.

Answer 2

The Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the First War of Indian Independence or the Sepoy Mutiny was a prolonged period of armed uprisings in different parts of India against British occupation of that part of the subcontinent.

This war brought about the end of the British East India Company's rule in India, and led to direct rule by the British government (British Raj) of much of the Indian subcontinent for the next 90 years.