150 Years Of 1857

A glorious moment has touched us again, the recollection of 1857, Indias First War of Independence, though some imagine it was the second, the first being the Battle of Plassey amongst nabob Sirajudaullah of Bengal and Robert Clive of the Company forces in 1757. There is another view that the battles fought by Mysores Tipoo Sultan should also be given the aforementioned(prenominal) status. Besides, it would be folly not to count the series of uprisings in Chhotanagpur of Bihar (now Jharkhand), the Tamur Chuar Bhumij Jagganath Dhal uprising in 1760, the Battle of Chero in 1770-72, the Tilka Manjhi Rebellion in 1784, the Battle of Coles in 1831-32, the Santhal Uprising in 1855-56.

Eighteen fiftyseven was, of course, the first comprehensive pan-Indian battle against the British fought by the combined will of Indians from various parts of the country, both Rajas and commoners, soldiers and civilians. Fought with prodigious bravery, with death-defying courage by the sepoys of the Company forces who decided to mutiny against their British officers, who vaingloriously believed Indians to be natural slaves or conquered people, incapable of fighting pricker for their rights and so lacking a awareness of unity, split between religions and castes and rich and poor as to have no sense of nationhood, much less a sense or desire for its independence.





Eighteen fiftyseven laid to rest all these myths and make-beliefs of the English. They have attempt to prolong these myths by a deliberate falsehood, attributing the mutiny to the phantasmal beliefs of Hindu and Muslim soldiers against the use of new cartridges with a close of beef or pork. The falsehood of this fond belief has been adequately challenged and demolished. There was behind the anger, and the lying and cheating about these cartridges which rode reprehensible on Indian sensibilities, a deeper anger of having to submit to the dominance and authority of callous aliens who too were human and whose prowess frequently rested on the prowess of the Indian Army.

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