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The region in which colonel gerrard led the counter attack against 1857 revoluntaries?

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

Part of Indian independence movement

1857 rebellion map.jpg

A 1912 map of the Great Uprising of 1857 showing the centres of rebellion including the principal ones: Meerut, Delhi, Cawnpore (Kanpur), Lucknow, Jhansi, and Gwalior.

Date May 10, 1857

Location India (cf. 1857) [4]

Result Rebellion Suppressed,

End of Company Rule in India

Control taken by the British Crown

Casus

belli Numerous actions by the East India Company led Indian troops to rebel. Troops were followed by public in many places.

Territorial

changes Indian Empire created out of former-East India Company territory, some land returned to native rulers, other land confiscated by the Crown.

Combatants

British East India Company flag.svg Rebellious East India Company Sepoys,

7 Indian princely states,

deposed rulers of the independent states of Oudh, Jhansi

Some Indian civilians.

Flag of United Kingdom British Army

British East India Company flag.svg East India Company's Sepoys Native Irregulars and British regulars, British civilian volunteers raised in Bengal presidency

20 Princely states aiding the British including the independent states of Nepal, Kashmir as well as smaller states in region

Commanders

Bahadur Shah II

Nana Sahib

Mirza Mughal

Bakht Khan

Rani Lakshmi Bai

Tantya Tope

Begum Hazrat Mahal Commander-in-Chief, India:

George Anson (to May 1857)

Sir Patrick Grant

Sir Colin Campbell from (August 1857)

Jang Bahadur[1]

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of British East India Company's army on May 10, 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to the region of present-day Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, northern Madhya Pradesh or Saugor and Nerbudda Territories, Delhi, and Gurgaon.[2] Quote: "The 1857 rebellion was by and large confined to northern Indian Gangetic Plain and central India."[3] The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region, contained only with the fall of Gwalior on June 20, 1858. The rebellion has also been termed India's First War of Independence, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Revolt of 1857, and the Sepoy Mutiny.

As with the American colonies, Britain began its presence in India by way of a chartered company. The Honourable East India Company had been granted rights by the Crown to conduct trade in India and establish treaties. The British government promised military protection of the East India Company. India had long suffered divisions between its Hindu, Moslem, Buddhist, and Jain populations. They lacked the blood and cultural ties with Britain that Americans had. In India's case, they faced a foreign invader in Great Britain, not a civil war. The Indian Rebellion of 1857 marked an uprising against a hostile foreign nation rather than a rebellion against a brother.

 

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 marked a turning point for Britain in India. Prior to the uprising against the British, the British East India Company governed British affairs in India. The British army and navy supported the East India Company while the governors of the company ruled British possessions in India. After the nearly disastrous for British interests rebellion in India, the British crown assumed direct control over affairs in India through the Governor General or Raj. India became a colony directly under control of the British crown, much as the American colonies had been.

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