Why did the Muslims revolt against british
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The Sepoy units that rebelled during the Mutiny were from both the Hindu, and Islamic faiths. True, the British were more fearful of a general Muslim uprising, but that was mainly due to fear of the “Mohamedan Hordes” from Persia pouring through Afghanistan to aid their co-religionists. In actuality, almost as many Hindu regiments took up arms against the British as Muslim. A great deal more Muslim units than Hindu Did simply put down their arms and desert, and become bandits, preying on the mainly Hindu areas they were stationed in, and they’d have happily killed any British they came across, but the key is, they Actively avoided the surviving (“loyal”) Indian and British units.
Indeed, despite “Jihad” being declared by Imams against the British, and the installation of a Moghul as “Emperor”, a great many Muslim regiments fought For and alongside the British. The “Mutiny” did not catch on in many areas of India, and not at all in the North. There, the Regiments of Sepoys “Stayed true to their salt” and remained loyal to the East India Company, and their British Officers. Regiments of Sikh Sepoys, and of Muslim Sepoys from the north of India were Instrumental in crushing the “Mutineers”, and did so with a zeal that almost matched the vengeful, and in honesty (though after well publicised atrocities by the Mutineers, sadly understandably) utterly brutal and merciless British troops.
So, Hindus either fought For the British, Against the British, or simply Deserted… Muslims fought For the British, Against the British or simply Deserted… it was only troops of one faith that were on only one side in that conflict, and that was the Sikhs, who fought on the British side.
Indeed, despite “Jihad” being declared by Imams against the British, and the installation of a Moghul as “Emperor”, a great many Muslim regiments fought For and alongside the British. The “Mutiny” did not catch on in many areas of India, and not at all in the North. There, the Regiments of Sepoys “Stayed true to their salt” and remained loyal to the East India Company, and their British Officers. Regiments of Sikh Sepoys, and of Muslim Sepoys from the north of India were Instrumental in crushing the “Mutineers”, and did so with a zeal that almost matched the vengeful, and in honesty (though after well publicised atrocities by the Mutineers, sadly understandably) utterly brutal and merciless British troops.
So, Hindus either fought For the British, Against the British, or simply Deserted… Muslims fought For the British, Against the British or simply Deserted… it was only troops of one faith that were on only one side in that conflict, and that was the Sikhs, who fought on the British side.
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The Sepoy units that rebelled during the Mutiny were from both the Hindu, and Islamic faiths. True, the British were more fearful of a general Muslim uprising, but that was mainly due to fear of the “Mohamedan Hordes” from Persia pouring through Afghanistan to aid their co-religionists.
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The Sepoy units that rebelled during the Mutiny were from both the Hindu, and Islamic faiths. True, the British were more fearful of a general Muslim uprising, but that was mainly due to fear of the “Mohamedan Hordes” from Persia pouring through Afghanistan to aid their co-religionists
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