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Why did the sepoys mutiny against the British

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The immediate cause of the Indian Revolt of 1857, or Sepoy Mutiny, was a seemingly minor change in the weapons used by the British East India Company's troops. ... The switch only confirmed, in the minds of the sepoys, that the original cartridges had indeed been greased with cow and pig fat.

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