The East India Company basically a trading company Established itself as a political power in India in the year 1772 Its motto was to derive benefits out of Indian territories rather than improving the lives of the people the British introduced many expansionist and unjust policies To fulfill their intention of becoming a political power in India the cumulative effect of these policies exploitation and administrative innovations over the years adversely affected the positions of all the rulers sepoys zamindars peasants artisans pundits Movies etc were a feud among them who were adversely affected The colonial policies of the East India Company destroyed the traditional economic fabric of the Indian society the highly unpopular revenue settlements like the permanent settlement Mahal vari riot vari etc left the peasants Impoverished due to heavy taxation the annexation of Indian states by the company cut off the major source of Patridge to the artisans and And craftsman making their lives miserable Adding to the misery British policies also discouraged Indian handicrafts and promoted British Kurtz Summoned ours the traditional landed aristocracy Often saw their land rights forfeited resulting into a loss of status for them in the villages the East India Company's undue interference In the administration of princely states through the policies like subsidiary alliance and doctor of labs caused Discontentment not only amongst the rulers, but also the people The British never mixed with the Indian people and treated even the upper class Indians with contempt Such a racist attitude did not go well with educated Indians They were now aware of the concepts like equality liberty and fraternity introduced to them by the Western education the activities of Christian missionaries were looked upon with suspicion by Indians the attempts at socio-religious reforms by the British were seen as interference in the social and religious domains of Indian society the conditions of service in the company's army Increasingly came into conflict with the religious beliefs of the sepoys to a religious Hindu of that time crossing the sea meant loss of caste the general service enlistment Act passed in 1856 made it compulsory for an Indian Savoy to serve overseas if required by the government The Indian sepoys were also unhappy about their emoluments come back to their British counterparts an Indian support was made to fail a subordinate at every step and was racially discriminated in matters of promotions and privileges The annexation of ovid which was home to many of the sepoys further inflamed their feelings These were the reasons which caused great resentment among the supports However the flashpoint was reached when the soldiers were asked to bite off the paper cartridges for the newly Introduced Enfield rifles, which were reportedly greased with beef and pig fat This was against the religious beliefs of Hindu and Muslim supports In February 1857 the sepoys of 19th Native Infantry at Berlin pur refused to use the newly introduced Enfield rifles and broke out in mutiny the infantry was disbanded in March 1857 On March 29 1857 the Indian sepoys ad Barrackpore Refused to use the greased cartridges They were forced to buy the cartridges and load the rifles on a routine trip Mongol panting a young support of the regiment gets enraged and attacks his officers He was later overpowered by the European soldiers of the regiment The Indian Savoy's get inspired by Mongols act and tension grips in the entire regiment Mangal Pandey shoots himself to avoid humiliating trial at the army coat However, he survives and is put on trial he was subsequently hanged On 9th May 1857 85 sepoys admitted cantonment where stripped off their uniform and sentenced to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment for defying the orders on the issue of greased cartridges On the next day the others the boys mutiny and release their fellow inmates These sepoys marched towards Delhi and reached redford in the early hours of 11 May papers awaited Bartle shot to the Mughal emperor to become the leader of the revolt and Proclaimed him as Shanghai in this town The rebels captured the city of Delhi from the British Mahadesh I wrote letters to all the Chiefs and rulers of India Urging them to organize a confederacy of the Indian states to fight and replace the British Reggie Stone centers of the revolt and Delhi the mughal emperor Bahadur shah was only a symbolic leader and the real power was exercised by general back on At conferred the revolt was led by Nana Sahib and as general tanta topping the revolt at Lucknow was led by Begum Hazrat mother Maulvi Amidala of Farsi apart also organized rebellions and fought the British Khan Bahadur, I'm a descendent of the last independent rohila Lita was a British pensioner at beretti The revolt provided him an opportunity to claim his ruling rights over his territory The revolt and our heart was led by Coover sing the Zamindar of Jagdish boom Rani Laxmi Bai offered a stiff resistance to the British Dancing, but she was finally defeated and qualia The British captured Delhi on 20th September 1857 Bahadur Shah was taken as a prisoner and the royal princes were captured and shot dead one by one the great leaders of the revolt fell the revolt was brutally suppressed and by the end of 1859 the British authority over India was fully reestablished Even though the revolt of 1857 failed to overthrow the British rule it helped in developing a nationalistic spirit and Generated a feeling of oneness among the people of the country Which inspired the subsequent stages of freedom struggle? 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