sepoys

IOTL the Sepoy Mutiny was a huge but ultimately disorganized revolt that, lacking a clear leader or even a common goal, was eventually defeated in detail after the British retook Delhi in September 1857. Suppose that the rebels get a few lucky breaks in an alternate timeline, leading to this...

Like it says on the tin. What PODs, from, say, 1830 onward could help the rebels score more victories or at least hold out against the British for longer? Two good ones could be keeping the Delhi arsenal from being blown up and getting John Nicholson out of the picture somehow, since he saved...

This is a very hard thing to do, but let's say that Bahadur Shah Zafar rejects the Sepoys and aids the British to putting the Sepoys down. Let's say for the sake of the thread, Zafar manages to hold Delhi in a siege using his personal troops and the small British detachment in the city for as...

Hello again, you beautiful persons! For a long time, I have been writing an alternative history tale which, although it focuses mainly on the American Civil War and the Confederate States of America, will not fail to show events in Europe, Africa and Asia. In particular, the Sepoys Rebellion in...

Overall, the Indian ("Sepoy") Rebellion of 1857, which started as an army mutiny but snowballed as grievances piled up onto the declarations of the rebels, was hampered politically by internal discord within the rebel camps, the incompetence of the rebel Indians' political leaders (Mughal...

So, what if Bahadur Shah II, last mughal emperor, had come to the conclusion that pissing off the british would be a bad idea, and instead decides to either ignore or fight against the sepoy mutiny of 1857? What are the effects on India? With the mughals still nominally in charge, would the BEIC...

Assuming the Sepoy Rebellion was (somehow) successful and the British was (somehow) expelled from North and Central India. What would the sub-continent would look like afterward? Which area would the Mughal Empire envelop? Would the Maratha try to regain their power? How will the British deal...

What would happen in a world where the Sepoy Rebellion was more organized and supported? WWould the British be pushed off India? If so, what next? My knowledge of Indian history is next to zero, so any awnsers would be very much appreciated.

In Java, 1815, the British made their preparations to return the island (a Napoleonic-era conquest) to the Dutch. But the British Indian troops of the Light Infantry Battalion were quite frustrated - and quite worried. They were frustrated because they had been on duty in a foreign land...