What is the tension individual & group in Sepoys Rebellion (British imperialism on India)?
However benevolent the British Empire was (and it was, largely) nobody likes to be subjugated, particularly by a foreign power. That is the underlying and fundamental cause of the rebellion. However, it was a rebellion, rather than a War of Independence. It never extended beyond what was essentially the valley of the Ganges. The spark, if you’ll pardon the pun, was provided by the well known greased cartridges. The rebellion was ferociously put down (the way rebellions were) and the situation and attitudes, on both sides, were never the same again. Having said that, I was born in India and lived there for the first 19 years of my life. Among the poorer Indians, there was a nostalgic longing for the days of the Raj. And then there is the legacy and the infrastructure left by the British, upon which the Indians have built. Though the Raj is vilified now, and rightly so, the achievements and the legacy are, alas, too often forgotten. I speak as a child of the Raj. I am here because it exi
