In late March 1857 a sepoy named Mangal Pandey attacked British officers at the military garrison in Barrackpore. He was arrested and then executed by the British in early April. Later in April sepoy troopers at Meerut refused the Enfield cartridges, and, as punishment, they were given long prison terms, fettered, and put in jail. This punishment incensed their comrades, who rose on May 10, shot their British officers, and marched to Delhi, where there were no European troops. There the local sepoy garrison joined the Meerut men, and by nightfall the aged pensionary Mughal emperor Bahādur Shah II had been nominally restored to power by a tumultuous soldiery. The seizure of Delhi provided a focus and set the pattern for the whole mutiny, which then spread throughout northern India. With the exception of the Mughal emperor and his sons and Nana Sahib, the adopted son of the deposed Maratha peshwa, none of the important Indian princes joined the mutineers.
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India was a superpower in that period with a world economy share of 24.4% in 1700 to 4.2% in 1950. Britain had killed over 4 million Indian during the begal famine and left India in a awful condition. East India trade company the company made India one of the wealthiest countries in the world ,. Britain seized it and looted the silicon and golden trade routes. Brought trade and influence into the country basically owning the global textile trade. Another was raw materials like jute and cotton with their rich agriculture They had very good raw goods such a Dimond and jewels and coffee and spices. Drawing on nearly two centuries of detailed data on tax and trade, Patnaik calculated that Britain drained a total of nearly $45 trillion from India during the period 1765 to 1938. It's a staggering sum. It is estimated that over 15 million people died. India had fallen below poverty and had alot of conflicts due to that aswell which led to the partition of India - Pakistan - Bangladesh and a still on going war with Muslims vs Hindus
