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WAS THE INDIAN MUTINY CONSEQUENCE OF THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BRITISH INFORMATION SYSTEM?

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139–153
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2014-08-05
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If the British authorities had sufficient and accurate information before the revolt occurred, this would not happen as the Empire’s military power was strong enough to prevent such incident

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Objective & Hypothesis:The Indian Mutiny has an important place in British Colonial History.
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Key Findings & Data:There were various causes of this rebellion but this research, which was based on the original historical documents, showed that the main reason was the breakdown of the British Information System.
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Conclusion & Impact:If the British authorities had sufficient and accurate information before the revolt occurred, this would not happen as the Empire’s military power was strong enough to prevent such incident
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⚙️Variables:Hindistan İsyanı · İngiliz Yönetimi · İnformasyon Sistemi

Abstract

The Indian Mutiny has an important place in British Colonial History. There were various causes of this rebellion but this research, which was based on the original historical documents, showed that the main reason was the breakdown of the British Information System. This study also considered other aspects which played role in the mutiny such as delay in construction of telegraphic system and railways. Thus, the British government realised that a controlled information line in Indian as well as between India and Great Britain was vital. There was some improvement in governmental communications between the two countries but existence of the electric telegraph line was still slow and unreliable. Over thirty thousand soldiers including Muslims and Hindus rebelled together against the British authority. It spread out to other regions in Northern India involving princes and peasants. If the British authorities had sufficient and accurate information before the revolt occurred, this would not happen as the Empire’s military power was strong enough to prevent such incident

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Hint Ayaklanması İngiliz Sömürgecilik Tarihi’nde önemli bir yere sahiptir. Buisyanın birçok sebebleri vardır ancak orijinal tarihi kaynaklara dayalı olarakyapılan bu geniş çaplı araştırma isyanın asıl sebebinin İngiliz iletişim sistemininçöküşünden dolayı olduğunu göstermiştir. Bu araştırma aynı zamanda telegrafve tren hatlarının inşasının gecikmesi gibi isyanda rol oynayan diğer sebebleride değerlendirmiştir. Böylece İngiliz hükümeti Hindistan ve Büyük Britanyaarasındaki iletişim hattının yanısıra Hindistan içinde de kontrollü informasyonhattının öneminin farkına varmıştır. İki ülke arasındaki resmi iletişimdegöze çarpan bir ilerleme görülsede o dönemde kullanımda olan telegraf hattıyavaş ve güvenilmezdi. Otuz binin üzerinde Müslüman ve Hintlilerin de içindebulunduğu askerler hep birlikte İngiliz yönetimine karşı isyan ettiler. İsyanKuzey Hindistan’daki diğer bölgelere ve bu bölgelerde yaşayan prenses veköylüleri de içine alacak şekilde yayıldı. Eğer İngiliz yönetimi isyan öncesiyeterli ve düzenli bilgiye sahip olsaydı, isyan çıkmayabilirdi ki İmparatorluğunaskeri birliği bu tür isyanları önleyebilecek bir güce sahibti.

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BAYKUŞOGLU, S. (2014). WAS THE INDIAN MUTINY CONSEQUENCE OF THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BRITISH INFORMATION SYSTEM?. Hitit Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Cilt: 7 - Sayı: 1, 139–153. https://ajindex.com/articles/102673

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  1. The other main centres of the rebellion were Allahabad, Mainpuru, Fatehgarh, Bareilly, Agra, Aligarh, Bulandshahr, and Delhi. “A telegraphic despatch received at Bombay from Meerut states that the 3d Bengal cavalry were in open Mutiny. Several officers and men had been killed and wounded” The Times, 8 June Monday 1857, p.9. First Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881), statesman and man of letters. see for more information: STEPHEN, Leslie (Sir) and LEE, Sidney (Sir). (1917), The Dictionary of National Biography, vol. V, Oxford University Press, p.1006. The Time’s Correspondent shared also same idea as Disraeli. He said, “The Mutiny is not instigated by any religious feeling. Every mutiny that has ever occurred in India has been apparently created by one of two causes a reduction of pay or an outrage on caste prejudice. The reason for that fact is simple enough. No other cause would ever induce three Sepoys to act together. They have no patriotism, for during 600 years they have had no country. They have no sense of a common interest in the common weal…” The Times, June Monday 1857, p.12. According to him there was lack of understanding between ruler and ruled and the British had failed to use Hindu-Muslim differences to ensure the loyalty of the army. Evidence to this, Sir George Digby Barker saying in his letter: “You may as well direct my letters to me at Benares to be forwarded, but at present all postal communication is cut off beyond Allahabad. The telegraph has been cut by these murderous hounds and made into slings to fire at us”, Barker, Sir George Digby (General), Letters from Persia ~ India 1857-1858, (edited by Lady Barker), G. Bell and Sons ltd., London, p.46. JAMES, Lawrance. (1997), Raj The Making and Unmaking of British India, Little Brown and Company (UK), London, p.5. Bayly, C. A. (Christopher Alan). (1997), An Empire of Information: Political Intelligence and Social Communication in North India, 1780-1880, Cambridge University Press, p.46. Ibid., p.366. Ibid., p.369. Ibid., p.369. Ibid., p.165. Ibid., p.165. BAIRD, J. G. A. (1911), Private Letters of the Marques of Dalhousie, William Blackwood and Sons, Edingurgh and London, p.119. He said that “In November last we began to lay the electric telegraph. Five days ago I received a message from Agra, 800 miles distant, transmitted in 1 hour and 50 minutes! And I have a few minutes ago read the heads of intelligence of your mail of 24th February by way of Bombay. In short time we shall complete