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Describe the event that led to Britain taking direct control of India.

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The Great Uprising of 1857. The Indian Rebellion of 1857, triggered by numerous grievances of both Indian soldiers (sepoys) and civilians against the East India Company, ended the Company's rule in India and established the formal imperial rule of the British Crown across the region.

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