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| | 4Reference || British Raj (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Main article: Indian Mutiny On May 10, 1857, Indian soldiers of the British Indian Army, drawn mostly from Muslim units from Bengal, mutinied in Meerut, a cantonment eighty kilometers northeast of Delhi. |
 | | The rebels marched to Delhi to offer their services to the Mogul Empire emperor, and soon much of north and central India was plunged into a year-long insurrection against the British. |
 | | The uprising, which seriously threatened British rule in India, has been called many names by historians, including the Sepoy Rebellion, the Great Mutiny, and the Revolt of 1857; many people in South Asia, however, prefer to call it India's first war of independence. |
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