why would some indians put their lives in danger for the british?

The uprising of Indian soldiers against British soldiers due to the refusal to accept new rifles because they were greased with pork, against the Muslim religion and greased with beef fat that went against the Hindi religion as they considered the cow scared.

workers of lowell mills were greatly benefited for the waltham type of work which was more a paternalist kind, trying to protect the integrity of this little girls coming from small farmers and providing an adequate place of work, this in an effort to avoid the issues of bad place conditions and immorality that the people in bigger industrialized cities of great britain were experimenting.