{"id":285,"date":"2004-08-27T10:26:57","date_gmt":"2004-08-27T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=285"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:18","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:18","slug":"just_what_exact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/27\/just_what_exact\/","title":{"rendered":"Just what exactly was the Sepoy Mutiny?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we started the blog, several folks have asked me about the Sepoy Mutiny &#8211; the historical event our blog title derives from.  The ever-excellent Wikipedia provides the most concise overview I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8211; <a title=\"Indian Mutiny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sepoy_mutiny\">Indian Mutiny &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>The Indian Mutiny (also known as the Sepoy Mutiny) as known to the British or The First War Of Indian Independence as known to the Indians was a period of uprising in northern and central India against British rule in 1857-1858. It is also known as the Sepoy Rebellion, the Great Mutiny, and the Revolt of 1857. It is widely acknowledged to be the first-ever united rebellion against colonial rule in India.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>I&#8217;m personally not terribly hung up on colonial \/ post-colonial politics but I do think the name has a cool sound to it &amp; the history is an interesting read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we started the blog, several folks have asked me about the Sepoy Mutiny &#8211; the historical event our blog title derives from. The ever-excellent Wikipedia provides the most concise overview I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8211; Indian Mutiny &#8211; Wikipedia, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/27\/just_what_exact\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}