Everything about Sepoys totally explained
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sepoy (from
Persian سپاهی
Sipâhi meaning "soldier") was a native of
India, a soldier allied to a European power, usually the
United Kingdom. Specifically, it was the term used in the
British Indian Army, and earlier in the
Honourable East India Company, for an
infantry private (a cavalry trooper was a
Sowar), and is still so used in the modern
Indian Army,
Pakistan Army and
Bangladesh Army. The Sepoys played a prominent role in the
Indian Rebellion of 1857 after they discovered that the new rifles being issued to them used animal fat to grease the casing.
The same Persian word has reached English via another route in the form of
Spahi. Also the
Sepoy Mutiny got its name from this.
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