How did the Revolt of 1857 gather popularity?
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A Mutiny Becomes a Popular Rebellion. The Sepoy mutiny which started in 1857 threatened the British East India Company's very presence in India. ... On 10th May, the soldiers marched to the jail in Meerut and released the imprisoned Sepoys. They attacked and killed British officers.
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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India during 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.[4][5] The event is known by many names, including the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and India's First War of Independence.[a][6]
Indian Rebellion of 1857
A 1912 map showing the centres of the rebellionDate10 May 1857 – 1 November 1858
(1 year and 6 months)LocationIndiaResult
British victory
Suppression of revoltFormal end of the Mughal empireEnd of Company rule in IndiaTransfer of rule to the British CrownTerritorial
changesBritish Raj created out of former East India Companyterritory (some land returned to native rulers, other land confiscated by the British crown)Belligerents
 SepoyMutineers GwaliorFactions Forces of Rani Laxmi bai, the deposed ruler ofJhansi Forces of Nana Sahib Peshwa Followers ofBirjis Qadra OudhFollowers of Babu Kunwar SinghFollowers of Drig Narayan SinghForces of Ballabgarh king Nahar SinghFollowers of Rewari Chief Rao TularamForces of Shahmal Tomar
 British Empire Kingdom of Nepal East India Company21 Princely States:
 Ajaigarh Alwar Bharathpur Bhopal Bijawar Bikaner Bundi Hyderabad Jaipur Jaora Jodhpur Kapurthala Jammu and Kashmir Kendujhar Nabha Patiala Rampur Rewa Sirmur Sirohi Udaipur Mysore Travancore
Commanders and leaders
 Bakht Khan †Bahadur Shah IIMirza Mughal  Nana Sahib Tatya Tope  Rani Lakshmibai † Begum Hazrat Mahal Birjis QadrBabu Kunwar Singh
(d. April 1858)
 Lord Canning George Anson
(d. May 1857) Patrick Grant Colin Campbell
(from August 1857) John Nicholson † Jung Bahadur Rana[1]
Casualties and lossesat least 100,000[2][not in citation given]-nearly 806,000 and possibly more, both in the rebellion and in famines and epidemics of disease in its wake, by comparison of sketchy pre-existing population estimates with Indian Census of 1871.[3]
The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 miles northeast of Delhi (now Old Delhi). It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions, chiefly in the upper Gangetic plainand central India,[b][7][c][8] though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east.[d][9] The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region,[e][10] and was contained only with the rebels' defeat inGwalior on 20 June 1858.[11] On 1 November 1858, the British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the hostilities formally to have ended until 8 July 1859.
Indian Rebellion of 1857
A 1912 map showing the centres of the rebellionDate10 May 1857 – 1 November 1858
(1 year and 6 months)LocationIndiaResult
British victory
Suppression of revoltFormal end of the Mughal empireEnd of Company rule in IndiaTransfer of rule to the British CrownTerritorial
changesBritish Raj created out of former East India Companyterritory (some land returned to native rulers, other land confiscated by the British crown)Belligerents
 SepoyMutineers GwaliorFactions Forces of Rani Laxmi bai, the deposed ruler ofJhansi Forces of Nana Sahib Peshwa Followers ofBirjis Qadra OudhFollowers of Babu Kunwar SinghFollowers of Drig Narayan SinghForces of Ballabgarh king Nahar SinghFollowers of Rewari Chief Rao TularamForces of Shahmal Tomar
 British Empire Kingdom of Nepal East India Company21 Princely States:
 Ajaigarh Alwar Bharathpur Bhopal Bijawar Bikaner Bundi Hyderabad Jaipur Jaora Jodhpur Kapurthala Jammu and Kashmir Kendujhar Nabha Patiala Rampur Rewa Sirmur Sirohi Udaipur Mysore Travancore
Commanders and leaders
 Bakht Khan †Bahadur Shah IIMirza Mughal  Nana Sahib Tatya Tope  Rani Lakshmibai † Begum Hazrat Mahal Birjis QadrBabu Kunwar Singh
(d. April 1858)
 Lord Canning George Anson
(d. May 1857) Patrick Grant Colin Campbell
(from August 1857) John Nicholson † Jung Bahadur Rana[1]
Casualties and lossesat least 100,000[2][not in citation given]-nearly 806,000 and possibly more, both in the rebellion and in famines and epidemics of disease in its wake, by comparison of sketchy pre-existing population estimates with Indian Census of 1871.[3]
The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 miles northeast of Delhi (now Old Delhi). It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions, chiefly in the upper Gangetic plainand central India,[b][7][c][8] though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east.[d][9] The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region,[e][10] and was contained only with the rebels' defeat inGwalior on 20 June 1858.[11] On 1 November 1858, the British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the hostilities formally to have ended until 8 July 1859.
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