The Indian Mutiny (Sepoy Rebellion)

The Indian Mutiny (Sepoy Rebellion) was India’s rebellion against British rule. It was a one year rebellion from 1857-1858. Although it was widespread, the rebellion was ultimately unsuccessful. Beginning in 1820, Britain introduced the idea that it had dominance in the political, economic, and cultural aspects of India. British officials began replacing Indian aristocracy. They also stopped allowing Hindu rulers without a natural heir to adopt an heir to be their successor. Britain would then annex the land, and they quickly angered the Brahmans. Western culture was introduced as missionaries challenged religious beliefs, women were emancipated, and a bill removed the legal obstacles for widows wishing to remarry. The people in India believed …show more content…
These were associated with France first in the French empire and later the French Union. It is called Indochina because of the Indian and Chinese influences in the region’s culture. France established lordship over the area between 1858 and 1893. The Indochinese Union was created in order to govern the new region. Foreign affairs, finance, defense, customs, and public works were headed by a French governor-general and were under exclusive authority of federal-type central government run in the royal houses of the three countries. The only exception was in southern Vietnam, which was a real and perfect French bureaucracy. In 1940, the Japanese invaded northern Vietnam, and in 1941, they invaded the rest of Indochina. The western provinces of Cambodia were ceded to Thailand. The local French government was allowed to remain in office, but in March 1945, the Japanese proclaimed the autonomous state of Vietnam and interned the French personnel. The Vietnamese nationalist leader proclaimed a Democratic Republic of Vietnam and assumed power immediately after the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II. The French reoccupied Laos and Cambodia shortly afterward. The Indochinese Federation was founded as a greater and newer version of the French Union in which Vietnam was treated as an independent state. It took several years to establish, and then the area was controlled from Paris. In 1950, the French had to recognize Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia as independent self-governing states within the French Union in order to retain the area after the First Indochina War. At the Geneva Conference in 1954, true independence came for the area. The former French Indochina was important because through France’s rule over the area primary schools were created, the University of Hanoi was established, and Vietnam was turned into a profit turning