Question

Why did Indian soldiers oppose the use of royal Enfield rifles guns? Give short note.

Answer 1

Refusing to "bite the cartridge" was a turn of phrase used by the British in India of native Indian soldiers (sepoys) who had mutinied in 1857.

It derives from the act of biting open a paper cartridge containing gunpowder and musket ball in order to load contemporary rifles, especially the new Pattern 1853 Enfield rifled musket. The phrase is thought by some to have later spawned the more familiar idiom "bite the bullet".

One of the alleged causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 were rumours that the grease on these cartridges designed to keep them dry was, variously, pork or beef fat (pork being abhorrent to the Muslims, cows being sacred to the Hindus), thus their refusal to bite them.

Answer 2

Indian soldiers oppose the use of royal Enfield rifles guns

Explanation:

The English East India Company in December 1856 decided to use the new Enfield Rifle. Dum Dum, Ambala and Sialkot were selected as the training offices for the same. The new rifle required an exceptional kind of filling of a cartridge. The Indian soldiers had to bite off the outer covering of the cartridge to load while loading it into the rifle. There spread rumors that the cartridge has been greased with animals particularly of pig and cow's fat. The Indian soldiers regarded this act of government as the aim to besmirch their religion. As a result, they launched a rebellion against the Company.

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