The Indian Rebellion of 1857
began as a mutiny of sepoys of the East India
Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town
of Meerut, and soon escalat other mutinies and
civilian rebellions largely in the upper Gangetic
plain and central India, with the major hostilities
confined to present-day Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
northern Madhya Pradesh, and the Delhi region.