A large number of unsuspecting Englishmen and their women and children were indiscriminately murdered in Meerut, Delhi, and other places.
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T he wrath of the mutineers was mostly directed against the Christians, who had interfered with their religion. Moreover, as the mutiny later turned out to be there appeared to be nothing national or patriotic in it to appeal to the noble sentiments of the Sikhs to attract them, to the side of the mutineers. For over two centuries, the Sikhs had fought against the Mughal tyranny and they could not now be persuaded to support an alliance which might have resulted in reestablishment of tyrant Mughal rule. T he Sikhs could not volunteer to help these erstwhile enemies of the Punjab, nor could they, for evident reasons, espouse the cause of the Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah II, whom the mutineers had raised to the throne. Their behavior towards the civil population during their first march in 1846 from the theatre of war to the capital of Lahore, and during the British occupation of the country before and after the annexation, had caused such, deep wounds in the hearts of the people as could not be healed in so short a period. The offensive airs of the Poorbia garrison in the Punjab had been particularly galling to the martial Sikhs.
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The Poorbia sepoys, the soldiers of U.P., which formed the Bengal army were then, and are still called in Punjab, had not the moral courage to approach the Sikhs for co-operation and assistance against the British as they had themselves helped the British to destroy the independent kingdom of the Punjab in 1845-46 and reduced it to British subjection in 1848-49.Ī s such, there was not much love lost between the Poorbia sepoys and the people of the Punjab. They had neither been consulted nor invited. They had never been taken into confidence. S ome people say that the "Indian struggle for freedom (1857) failed because the Sikhs betrayed their comrades and sided with the British." The charge of `betrayal' against the Sikhs could be justified only if they 'had given up,' or 'had been disloyal to, or had violated allegiance to a cause, person or trust they had at any time befriended or owned.' As history knows, the Sikhs were never at any time privy to, or took up the cause of the mutiny of 1857. This is because of the intensive propaganda of some politicians who do not appear to care for historical truths. The worst sufferers in the latter case have been the people of Punjab, particularly the Sikhs. And equally, if not more, undeserved have been the censures and charges of betrayal and treachery leveled against those who did not espouse the mutineers' act, or were opposed to their activities. The full-throated praise showered by some of our modern political leaders on the sepoy mutineers and their so-called leaders have all been undeserved. T his view, however, has not been accepted by most recent researches of any Indian historian of international fame. and neighboring territories, has been called by some writers 'the Indian War of Independence'. The mutiny at Meerut on May 10, 1857, which later became widespread and developed into a revolt in some parts of the U.P. The Government of India commemorated this event with great enthusiasm on August 15, 1957, Independence Day. T he Sepoy revolt of 1857 is an engrossing subject. The Truth About the Indian Mutiny of 1857
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