1. The Indian Mutiny of 1857
... (labelled badmashi by the British) who profited from the upsurge in violence and looting. However, if the rebellion appealed strongly to some groups, other sections of Indian society were more ambivalent about it. Most importantly, despite rumours in British primary sources of plots in the Bombay and Madras armies, neither of the other two presidential armies mutinied. In the Punjab, Sir John Lawrence was also ... line that the rebellion was a religious war, rebel troops were scattered – both in the ends they pursued and in their theatres of war. Despite much of Awadh, the city of Del...
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