Sepoy Rebellion

American  

noun

1. a revolt of the sepoy troops in British India (1857–59), resulting in the transfer of the administration of India from the East India Company to the crown.

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Sepoy Rebellion British  

noun

1. the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58

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Example Sentences

The Indian Mutiny of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, was an attempt to overthrow British rule.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Then suddenly, inconceivably, mutiny sweeps India, as indeed the Sepoy Rebellion did in 1857, and Novelist Farrell takes his Englishmen out of a quaint hunting print and frames them in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the historical heroines of India's freedom movement is the widowed Rani of Jhansi, who joined the 1857-1858 Sepoy Rebellion against British rule.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Sepoy Rebellion had some features in common with our own.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various

I have re-lived the agonizing scenes of the Sepoy Rebellion and the French Revolution.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen