What steps did the British take to suppress the Revolt?
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When British East India Company[1] started their business in seventeenth century, India was under Mughal Empire. Huge, strong and powerful.
At that time EIA was facing strong competition with Dutch, Portuguese, French companies. Building trade relationships with local traders and breaking old established relationships of rivals was the major aim of all the European trade companies.
In this process, every company must own an army to defend and protect their trade objectives. Gradually Mughal Empire became weak and India was primarily divided into 5 main Empires - Mughals, Marathas, Sikhs, Nizam & Nawab of Bengal. By the end of 1803, the British East India company had a private army of about 260,000, had captured large areas of India and kicked the major rivals out of India or in limited small areas.
During the revolt of 1857, they had support of many small & big kingdoms. If you look at the below chart, you may find revolutionaries had a minimal base. It was not possible for rebellions to defeat EIA.
So, British EIA, very cleverly suppressed the revolt of 1857.
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⭐ British take the following steps to suppress the Revolt of 1857 .
✓ British military officers freed Delhi, the epicenter of the Revolt, from the rebels.
✓ The Kashmiri Gate was blown up. Hundred of people were massacred.
✓ Bahadur Shah Zafar II , the Mughal Emperor, was tried for treason and exiled to Rangoon.
✓ His sons were cruelly shot down as they were held guilty of the murder of the English men, women and children.
✓ The control of Delhi and imprisonment of Bahadur Shah Zafar by the British broke the backbone of the mutiny.
✓ Lucknow was captured in 1858. Rani Lakshmi Bai was killed in the battle and Tantya Tope was captured and hanged to death.
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