Question

Short note on importance of 1857 sepoy mutiny in independence movement

Answer 1

it was a mutiny that was caused by the Indian soldiers of the british community. the reasons were many. some were
i. the rank was always the same i.e the lowest class among the millitary thus their salary was always low.
ii. the guns that they used needed a cartridge that had to be chewed out before using, the rumors were that the cartridge was made up of skin of pig or cow which was against their religion.

Answer 2

Violence spread throughout the Sepoy Mutiny. On March 29, 1857, at the parade ground at Barrackpore, a sepoy named Mangal Pandey fired the primary shot of the uprising. His unit in the Bengal military, which had refused to use the new rifle cartridges, become approximately to be disarmed and punished.