how the mutiny began line of communication ( 5 points)
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It was always a point to ponder as to how a mere 30,000 employees and soldiers of the East India Company overcame the sepoys and their supporters who revolted against their rule in the Indian sub-continent in 1857.
Explanation:
The British loved to interpret their victory as a 'miracle' of God. Others saw it as proof of their superiority as a race. For the victor any interpretation made sense. Today we know that it was humbug analysis.
Few realize that the turning point of 1857 took place at Lahore. An analysis of the Company even then realized that if Lahore fell, India would fall. Now that we have considerable material on the events of 1857, we have before us several interpretations that.
But how did the Company win the media war and why was Lahore the turning point? The media war, as the Punjab Intelligence Report of 1857 points out, was that the sepoys depended on traditional 'harkaras' and from information eked out of 'munshis' in critical positions. The medium of information was the postal service. The Company had the telegraph, a postal service that moved in horse-driven carriages and express 'harkaras' on horses – a sort of pony express. It is a fact of history that the famous Pony Express of America was copied from the Indian service.
By the time 1857 came about, over a thousand 'tongas' and 'rehras' plied between Lahore and Amritsar. There was a vernacular press thanks to small lithographic presses the Company had introduced. So we have a situation where the Company had a massive technological advantage over the sepoys and the local business community.
He reached the famous 1851 Barrack, which was in 2010 knocked down to make way for a palatial house for senior military officers, and immediately a council of war was formed. They decided to disarm the various Bengal Army regiments.
When the sepoys at Lahore finally did revolt in July and August 1857, they were brutally killed by tying them to cannons. In the Saddar Bazaar alone over 149 sepoys were shot to smithereens by cannon. In the river the sepoys who had revolted in Sialkot had headed to Lahore.
The victory at Lahore saw to it that the Company managed to mount an assault on Delhi. With the Western borders sealed thanks to Dost Muhammad, and with Pathan and Sikh backing, the fate of Lahore was critical to victory. That is why, as the communication or media war was won around Lahore, it was only a matter of time when a massive army approached Delhi, where sepoys in revolt from all over India had gathered around an ineffective emperor who was anyway in British pay, and feared losing his pension. Within six weeks the entire Punjab was secured. Such was, and remains the power of timely communication.
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