歷史今天:印度民族起義(5.10)
【英文原文】
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 began as a mutiny of sepoys of the British East India Company's army on 10 May 1857, in the town of Meerut, and soon erupted into 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. The rebellion posed a considerable threat to Company power in that region, and it was contained only with the fall of Gwalior on 20 June 1858. The rebellion is also known as India's First War of Independence, the Great Rebellion, the Indian Mutiny, the Revolt of 1857, the Uprising of 1857, the Sepoy Rebellion and the Sepoy Mutiny.
【中文譯文】
印度民族起義(Indian Rebellion of 1857)亦稱印度反英大起義，英國人則稱爲印軍譁變（The Indian Mutiny），亦稱印度叛變、土兵叛變（Sepoy Mutiny），而獨立後的印度則稱它爲印度第一次獨立戰爭。一般指1857年到1858年發生在印度北部和中部，英屬東印度公司服役的印度土兵發動的反對英國統治的普遍的民族大起義。這次起義以失敗告終，但卻終結了東印度公司管理印度的體制，從此印度置於英國的直接統治之下。
