Tag: east india company
-
July 10 in history: Vellore Mutiny against East India Company
1040: Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes. 1212: London fire burns most of the city. 1800: The British set up Fort William College in Calcutta to promote Urdu, Hindi and other languages. 1806: The Vellore Mutiny when Indian sepoys rose against the…
-
Lies about the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857
By Ashish Shukla NEW DELHI: On May 11, 1857, Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar received a few hundreds of East Indian Company cavalrymen in Red Fort, Delhi, who sought his blessing to throw out the yoke of British rule in India. As a letter from one of the rebels’ leaders put it: “The English are…