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It was the first expression of organised resistance against the British East India Company

It began as a revolt of the sepoys of the British East India Company’s army but eventually secured the participation of the masses.

The revolt is known by several names: the Sepoy Mutiny (by the British Historians), the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion (by the Indian Historians), the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence (by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar).

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At Delhi, the nominal and symbolic; leadership belonged to the Emperor Bahadur Shah, but the real command lay with a Court of Soldiers headed by General Bakht Khan who had led the revolt of the Bareilly troops and brought them to Delhi.

In the British army, Bakht Khan was an ordinary subedar of artillery.

After the British occupation of Delhi in September 1857, Bakht Khan went to Lucknow and continued to fight the British till he died in a battle on 13 May 1859.

The Emperor Bahadur Shah was perhaps the weakest link in the chain of leadership of the Revolt.

Bakht Khan represented the popular and plebian element at the headquarters of the Revolt

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The Meerut Mutiny (May 9, 1857) marked the beginning of the Revolt of 1857. It was lead by Kadam Singh. The Indian sepoys in Meerut murdered their British officers and broke open the jail. On May 10, they marched to Delhi.

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Bareilly (Rohilkhand) was a major centre during the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (also known as India's First War of Independence). ... Khan Badur Khan Rohilla, the grandson of Hafiz Rahmat Khan formed his own government in Bareilly in 1857 Indian revolt against British.

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Before the rebellion broke out, Agra was an important centre of British administration and commerce. ... After increasing unrest during the early months of 1857, the sepoys at Meerut broke into rebellion on 10 May 1857.

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The Siege of Lucknow lasted from May 30 to November 27, 1857, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Following the beginning of the conflict, the British garrison at Lucknow was quickly isolated and besieged.

Holding out for over two months, this force was relieved in September.

As the rebellion swelled, the combined British command at Lucknow was again besieged and required rescue from the new Commander-in-Chief, Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell.

Fast Facts: Siege of Lucknow

Conflict: Indian Rebellion of 1857

Dates: May 30 to November 27, 1857

Armies & Commanders

Sir Henry Lawrence

Major General Sir Henry Havelock

Brigadier John Inglis

Major General Sir James Outram

Lieutenant General Sir Colin Campbell

1,729 rising to approx. 8,000 men

Rebels

Various commanders

5,000 rising to approx. 30,000 men

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He Siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian rebellion of 1857. The besieged Company forces and civilians in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) were unprepared for an extended siege and surrendered to rebel forces under Nana Sahib, in return for a safe passage to Allahabad. However, their evacuation from Cawnpore turned into a massacre, and most of the men were killed. As an East India Company rescue force from Allahabad approached Cawnpore, 120 British women and children captured by the Sepoy forces were killed in what came to be known as the Bibighar Massacre, their remains being thrown down a nearby well in an attempt to hide the evidence. Following the recapture of Cawnpore and the discovery of the massacre, the angry Company forces engaged in widespread retaliation against captured rebel soldiers and local civilians.

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Damodar Rao on her back she jumped on her horse Badal from the fort; they survived but the horse died. The Rani escaped in the night with her son, surrounded by guards. The escort included the warriors Khuda Bakhsh Basharat Ali (commandant), Gulam Gaus Khan, Dost Khan, Lala Bhau Bakshi, Moti Bai, Sunder-Mundar, Kashi Bai, Deewan Raghunath Singh and Deewan Jawahar Singh. She decamped to Kalpi with a few guards, where she joined additional rebel forces, including Tatya Tope. They occupied the town of Kalpi and prepared to defend it. On 22 May British forces attacked Kalpi; the forces were commanded by the Rani herself and were again defeated.

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During the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58, the Sindhia ruler of Gwalior remained loyal to the British, but his army joined the mutineers and temporarily occupied Gwalior city before being defeated. Gwalior was constituted a municipality in 1887, and the princely state of Gwalior was absorbed by independent India in 1948.

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During the revolt of 1857, Allahabad and Banaras were revolted under the leadership of Maulvi Liyakat Ali and the revolt was ended when British officer Colonel Oncell captured Banaras

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The Barrackpore mutiny was a rising of native Indian sepoys against their British officers in Barrackpore in November 1824. The incident occurred when the British East India Company was fighting the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–1826) under the leadership of the Governor-General of Bengal, William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst

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The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major, but ultimately unsuccessful, uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.[4][5] The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the form of a mutiny of sepoys of the Company's army in the garrison town of Meerut, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Delhi (that area is now Old Delhi). It then erupted into other mutinies and civilian rebellions chiefly in the upper Gangetic plain and central India,[a][6][b][7] though incidents of revolt also occurred farther north and east.[c][8] The rebellion posed a considerable threat to British power in that region,[d][9] and was contained only with the rebels' defeat in Gwalior on 20 June 1858.[10] On 1 November 1858, the British granted amnesty to all rebels not involved in murder, though they did not declare the hostilities to have formally ended until 8 July 1859. Its name is contested, and it is variously described as the Sepoy Mutiny, the Indian Mutiny, the Great Rebellion, the Revolt of 1857, the Indian Insurrection, and the First War of Independence

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End of company rule: the great uprising of 1857 was an important landmark in the history of modern India.

The revolt marked the end of the East India Company’s rule in India.

Direct rule of the British Crown: India now came under the direct rule of the British Crown.

This was announced by Lord Canning at a Durbar in Allahabad in a proclamation issued on 1 November 1858 in the name of the Queen.

The Indian administration was taken over by Queen Victoria, which, in effect, meant the British Parliament.

The India office was created to handle the governance and the administration of the country.

Religious tolerance: it was promised and due attention was paid to the customs and traditions of India.

Administrative change: the Governor General’s office was replaced by that of the Viceroy.

The rights of Indian rulers were recognised.

The Doctrine of Lapse was abolished.

The right to adopt sons as legal heirs was accepted.

Military reorganisation: the ratio of British officers to Indian soldiers increased but the armoury remained in the hands of the English. It was arranged to end the dominance of the Bengal army.

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Now lets watch all these center's of revolt on Google Earth

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Now lets watch all these center's of revolt on Google Earth

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Atharv Sharma

Tanish Gupta

Ananya

Kartik Agrawal

Kanav Singh

Arnav Bansal

Aryan Sharma