A mutiny keeps 1857 tourists indoors (India)

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TAPAS CHAKRABORTY

Lucknow, Sept. 25: Angry protests prevented a group of British “mutiny tourists” from visiting the Residency, where many of their forefathers died in a siege during the 1857 uprising ...

Mark Allen Havelock, a descendant of Major General Henry Havelock, who helped defeat the rebels in Lucknow, is leading the team ...

“We will not allow anyone to make a mockery of our freedom struggle by eulogising those who oppressed us for 200 years. The memory that their forefathers tortured and slaughtered our freedom fighters will not fade,” said BJP leader Lalji Tandon, who led the demonstrations ...

A spokesperson for Tornos, the travel agency that has organised the trip, said the visitors would have only placed wreaths in a cemetery where some of the British soldiers were buried ...

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070926/asp/nation/story_8362539.asp

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1. the rebellion was in part do to religion

there were rumors started among the East Indian troops that the British were trying to force them to become Christians and as part of that the British introduced a new type of rifle cartridge where the end had to be bitten off, among the Muslim troops it was said that the end of the cartridge had been dipped in pork fat and among the Hindu troops that it had been dipped in beef tallow, there by making the troops "unclean" and leaving them no choice but to become Christians.

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2. Thanks!