Why Didn T Indians Unite Against The British In The Sepoy Mutiny?

To start off the question it would only make sense to explain what the Sepoy Mutiny was. The Sepoy Mutiny also known as the Indian Rebellion of 1857. It was as said a rebellion in India. In this, the Sepoys or the Indian soldiers under British control, refused to to accept new cartridges that were used for their Enfield rifles. They didn't accepted new cartridges because they were offensive to the Muslims and Hindus as the rifles were greased with beef and pork fat and the cow was the Hindus sacred animal and Muslims do not eat pork.
To answer this question "Why didn't Indians unite against British in the Sepoy Mutiny" though, I would actually have to change it saying, "why couldn't Indians unite against the British in the Sepoy Mutiny." I

am simply changing this because it would make more sense to say couldn't instead of didn't. Saying didn't is more referring to if they had a choice but saying couldn't means they didn't have a choice. They couldn't unite against the British because of one reason being weak leadership. Now, Im not saying this as facts only as opinion but it would seem that perhaps India's leaders maybe we're just unskilled or didn't have good strategies.. But of course that is all just a guess as I could not find much evidence of why India had weak leadership. The other reason the Indians couldn't unite against the British in the Sepoy Mutiny was because of serious splits between Hindus and Muslims. The reason for this split was because the Hindus didn't want the Muslim Mughal Empire restored so they favored British rule to Muslim rule. Now, if I were one of the Muslims during that time, I would feel obliged to split as well.

Q7: What might the decision to grease the Sepoy's cartridges with beef and pork fat reveal about the British attitude toward Indians?

Well since this question is more opinion based, I will explain my simple answer to a full extent.

My answer is, there attitude towards the Indians might be racist. Honestly it wouldn't be a surprise to say that based on what we already know about the Europeans being racist throughout history. For instance take what I talked about with Social Darwinism and Paternalism where the Europeans where very racist towards the Africans. It's all a matter of them thinking, "we are better than you and you can't do anything about it." And then there is basic evidence that the British were being racist. They decided to grease the Sepoy's cartridges with pork and beef fat. Obviously this would trigger the Muslims and Hindus! The Muslims because do not eat pork and what did you have to do to use the cartridges? Bite the ends that were soaked in Pork grease off. That's highly offensive as they don't eat pork and the fact that the British used pork grease rather than any other form of grease says that they might be offending them just to show that they can.. Or to be racist perhaps. Now with the Hindus, the cow is their sacred animal and the British are making them bite the ends of the cartridges that are soaked in beef fat. Now I see this as like telling someone to eat their beloved pet. It just does not make sense why anyone would be rude like this. Also, the British could have used any other form of grease but they chose to do pork and beef. To take this even one step further, if they

refused to bite the ends off, they were thrown in jail. That another piece of evidence that the British were acting better than them and basically wanted them to suffer. Perhaps another form of racism? They were basically saying, "Yes we did that, what are you going to do about it?" To summarize, I think that the British's attitude towards the Indians was judgmental and racist.

Q4: What changes took place as a result of colonial control?

Just to start, France had actually been quite active in Southeast Asia being colonized there. They actually helped with many of the people there. They eventually filled all important positions in the government bureaucracy.
Actually in fact, there were quite a bit of changes that took place as a result of colonial control.

Some even brought mixed results. For one, economies grew. They grew based on cash crops and or goods that could be sold on the world market. That most likely brought a lot of money and attention to South East Asia. Some of these products sold were tin and rubber. This was very beneficial for South East Asia's economy. Something that also changed was transportation and communication. These were changed because roads, harbors, and railroads were improved. This made it a lot easier for traveling and communicating to other countries. This really benefited European businesses however as they could get to South East Asia better.. But, because of this another beneficial thing happened and that was that education was better, people were healthier which most likely meant their medical system was better and improved, and everything was a lot more sanitary. I feel these changes benefited South East Asia and perhaps just made their economy a lot

better.

Q7: What does President McKinley's desires to "uplift and Christianize" the Filipinos suggest about his perception of the people?"

Well first off, it seems he was trying to make them educate and convert the Filipinos and make them more American which is something that you can't just really simply do. I believe that what he was trying to change them as well and I believe he was not aware of how some would feel towards this decision. He should have known based on past history of trying to do that but he didn't. I can see why he would say this and what his was reasoning for it and what he thought the outcome was going to be but as it usually goes in history, ideas like this never work. I think the Filipinos might have also been offended because they would think that America was like Europe which has often brought past conflicts and they just didn't realize that perhaps the Americans were just trying to help. Back to the point his perception was perhaps that they could be easily educated or that they were not educated enough and that he could easily change that by telling Methodist ministers to do that. He was only trying to be a helping hand but the Filipinos took that in a wrong way and thought he was insulting them saying they were unintelligent. You never really know how something you say will make others feel.