On March 29, 1857 a Brahmin Sepoy shot at a British officer in Barrackpore, Bengal. The incident was not the first of its kind--or the last. Two months later the British East India Company faced a major civil rebellion and political insurrection/restoration, accompanied by military mutinies in North India. The even ended British cultural hegemony, revived Indian-ness and kept alive an alternative Asiatic perspective--western authors still call it 'The Mutiny' but ...
