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PRONUNCIATION OF SEPOY REBELLION

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEPOY REBELLION

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Sepoy Rebellion is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SEPOY REBELLION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sepoy Rebellion

Indian Rebellion of 1857

British and European civilian volunteers raised in the Bengal Presidency 21 princely states ▪ Ajaigarh ▪ Alwar ▪ Bharathpur ▪ Bhopal ▪ Bijawar ▪ Bikaner ▪ Bundi ▪ Hyderabad ▪ Jaipur ▪ Jaora ▪ Kapurthala ▪ Kashmir ▪ Kendujhar ▪ Marwar ▪ Nabha ▪ Patiala ▪ Rampur State ▪ Rewa ▪ Sirmur ▪ Sirohi ▪ Udaipur Kingdom of Nepal Commanders and leaders Bahadur Shah II Nana Sahib Peshwa Bakht Khan Rani Lakshmibai Tantya Tope Begum Hazrat Mahal Babu Kunwar Singh Ishwori Kumari Devi, Rani of Tulsipur Commander-in-Chief, India: George Anson Sir Patrick Grant Sir Colin Campbell Jang Bahadur The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the cantonment of the town of Meerut, and soon escalated into other mutinies and civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic plain and central India, with the major hostilities confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.

Definition of Sepoy Rebellion in the English dictionary

The definition of Sepoy Rebellion in the dictionary is the Indian Mutiny of 1857–58.

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Sepoy Mutiny
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Synonyms and antonyms of Sepoy Rebellion in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Sepoy Rebellion» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

Sepoy叛乱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Rebelión de los cipayos
570 millions of speakers

English

Sepoy Rebellion
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सिपाही विद्रोह
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

تمرد الجندي الهندي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сипаев
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Sepoy Rebellion
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সিপাহী বিদ্রোহ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

révolte des Cipayes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pemberontakan Sepoy
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sepoy Rebellion
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

セポイの反乱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Sepoy 반란
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sepoy Pemberontakan
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

lính ấn độ trong quân đội anh nổi loạn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிப்பாய் கலகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सिपाही बंड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sepoy İsyanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Sepoy Rebellion
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Sipajowie Rebellion
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сипаїв
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Sepoy Rebellion
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ινδών στρατιωτών του βρετανικού Εξέγερση
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Brits-Indiese soldaat Rebellie
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

sepoy Uppror
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Sepoy-opprøret
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Sepoy Rebellion

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEPOY REBELLION»

The term «Sepoy Rebellion» is used very little and occupies the 161.397 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEPOY REBELLION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Sepoy Rebellion

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEPOY REBELLION»

Discover the use of Sepoy Rebellion in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Sepoy Rebellion and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Sepoy Rebellion. Reprinted from the London Quarterly ...
THE. SEPOY. REBELLION. FROM an early period of our connexion with the East Indies, we have sustained periodical disasters in those countries. rl'he first of these, popularly called 'the Amboyna massacre,' was, comparatively speaking, ...
‎1857
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World History
The Sepoy Rebellion Sometimes the resentment had a religious basis, as in the Sudan, where the revolt led by the Mahdi had strong Islamic overtones, although it was initially provoked by Turkish misrule in Egypt. More significant than Roy's ...
William Duiker, Jackson Spielvogel, 2008
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A Brief History of India
The Sepoy Rebellion, or Indian Mutiny, began in the barracks at Meerut, 30 miles outside Delhi. New Enfield rifles had recently been introduced but to load them soldiers had to bite open the cartridges. The rumor spread that the cartridges ...
Judith E. Walsh, 2006
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The Land of the Veda: Being Personal Reminiscences of India; ...
Being Personal Reminiscences of India; Its People, Castes, Thugs, and Fakirs; Its Religions, Mythology, Principal Monuments, Palaces, and Mausoleums: Together with the Incidents of the Great Sepoy Rebellion, and Its Results to Christianity ...
William Butler, 1872
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Imperialism Primary Sources History Kit
The Sepoy Rebellion was a surprise to the British. It began on May 10, 1857. Fourteen months later, a peace treaty was signed, and the rebellion ended. The British East India Company began recruiting Indian citizens as troops in the late ...
Teacher Created Material (TCM), 2013
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Library of Congress Subject Headings
... USE lndia—History—Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 Sepoy Rebellion, India, 1857-1858 USE India—History—Sepoy Rebellion, 1857-1858 (May Subd Geog) Sepoy Rebellion, Singapore, 1915 USE Singapore—History—Sepoy Rebellion,  ...
Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office, 2009
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AP World History, 3rd Ed
... also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, ranks as one of the most traumatic events in modern Indian and British history. Within many sepoy regiments, underlying resentment of British rule broke out into open revolt, owing to rumors that British ...
John McCannon, 2010
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Melodramatic Imperial Writing: From the Sepoy Rebellion to ...
Melodramatic Imperial Writing positions melodrama as a vital aspect of works that underscored the contradictions and injustices of British imperialism.
Neil Emory Hultgren, 2014
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The Essential World History
THE SEPOY REBELLION Perhaps the most famous uprising against European authority in the mid-nineteenth century was the revolt of the sepoys (SEE-poiz) in India. The sepoys (from the Turkish sipahis, cavalrymen or soldiers) were Indian  ...
William J. Duiker, Jackson Spielvogel, 2012
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The End of Empires: African Americans and India
One U.S. journal compared the Sepoy uprising to parallel developments in the United States. “England took twenty-eight months to repress the Sepoy rebellion,” said the Christian Recorder, which was “about as great an undertaking as to put ...
Gerald Horne, 2009

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEPOY REBELLION»

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Boehner, McConnell, and Priebus join in cultural cleansing against …
Haley's ancestors were all in India in the 1860s, and the Sepoy Rebellion would mean more to her heritage than the War Between the States. Maybe she would ... «Beaufort Observer, Jul 15»
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The Tears of the Rajas by Ferdinand Mount review – masterly …
The Sepoy rebellion or Indian mutiny (to give it its British name) was far-reaching in its repercussions, Mount reminds us, leading to the dissolution of the ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»

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