By 1857, the sepoys in the East India Company’s army began a rebellion after a rumour spread about a new rifle they would be receiving. To load the rifle soldiers believed they would have to ...

In 1600, Queen Elizabeth I approved the creation of the East India ... in March 1857, a sepoy named Mangal Pandey attacked his British officer and was executed. By May, the rebellion spread ...

An excavation team of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI) has unearthed a stepwell ... may have served as an escape route during the 1857 rebellion against the British Raj, was discovered ...