b. The Indian Mutiny, 1857
The rule of the East India Company under Dalhousie and Bentinck created grievances which became long-term causes of the rebellion that broke out against the British in 1857. However the trigger of the mutiny was the affair of the greased cartridge. The greased cartridge ‘Nor Persian war nor even Russian Tsar e’re did As much to break the English as the cartridge did.’ The Emperor Bahadur Shah in Delhi (who was almost...