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Tanuki

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27. I had the same reaction!

Reply to Crepuscular (Reply #19)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 05:11 AM

Jun 2013

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Indian_Rebellion_of_1857

..."The sepoys, a generic term used for native Indian soldiers of the Bengal Army, had their own list of grievances against the Company Raj, mainly caused by the ethnic gulf between the British officers and their Indian troops. The British had issued new gunpowder cartridges that were widely believed to be greased with cow or pig fat, which insulted both Hindus and Muslims.[1] Other than Indian units of the British East India Company's army, much of the resistance came from the old aristocracy, who were seeing their power steadily eroded under the British."...

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