sepoys broke out in open revolt at meerut on may 10 1857.
sepoys broke out in open revolt at meerut on may 10 1857.
where did the sepoys break out in open revolt on may 10 1857?
meerut
on the revolt of 1857: one of yadav's earliest contributions pertained to the 1857 mutiny and struggle by the indian princely states as well as indian "sepoys" against the rule of the east india company. punjab was traditionally considered to have a pacifist role in the struggle. yadav presented an argument that stated otherwise. citing evidence from the mutiny records relating to ambala, yadav argued that the revolt first broke out in ambala, and not meerut. in a letter r. c. majumdar wrote to k. c. yadav, he said, '...the most important article is on the mutiny at ambala. that there was an open revolt of the sepoys there on the morning of 10 may, before the outbreak at meerut, is, i must confess, a news to me and probably to many others. i congratulate you...' yadav has further written on the role of himachal pradesh and haryana. in 2008, yadav was a speaker at the national conference on the 1857 revolt organized by the kurukshetra university and ichr. he has also placed emphasis on the role of rao tula ram.
k. c. yadav
the inhabitants of the punjab were not as sympathetic to the sepoys as they were elsewhere in india, which limited many of the outbreaks in the punjab to disjointed uprisings by regiments of sepoys isolated from each other. in some garrisons, notably ferozepore, indecision on the part of the senior european officers allowed the sepoys to rebel, but the sepoys then left the area, mostly heading for delhi. at the most important garrison, that of peshawar close to the afghan frontier, many comparatively junior officers ignored their nominal commander, general reed, and took decisive action. they intercepted the sepoys' mail, thus preventing their coordinating an uprising, and formed a force known as the "punjab movable column" to move rapidly to suppress any revolts as they occurred. when it became clear from the intercepted correspondence that some of the sepoys at peshawar were on the point of open revolt, the four most disaffected bengal native regiments were disarmed by the two british infantry regiments in the cantonment, backed by artillery, on 22 may. this decisive act induced many local chieftains to side with the british.
indian rebellion of 1857