Episode 169

1.1 How the mutinies beganThe sepoys began their action with a signal: in manyplaces it was the firing of the evening gun or thesounding of the bugle. They first seized the bellof arms and plundered the treasury. They thenattacked government buildings – the jail, treasury,telegraph office, record room, bungalows – burningall records. Everything and everybody connectedwith the white man became a target. Proclamationsin Hindi, Urdu and Persian were put up in the citiescalling upon the population, both Hindus andMuslims, to unite, rise and exterminate the firangis.When ordinary people began joining the revolt,