Describe " The causes of the Indian revolt" and it's impact on the British

Historians have identified diverse political, economic, military, religious and social causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (War of Independence 1857). An uprising in several sepoy companies of the Bengal army was sparked by the issue of new gunpowder cartridges for the Enfield rifle.British public opinion was profoundly shocked by the scale of the uprising and by the loss of life on both sides - involving the massacre by the rebels of captured Europeans, including women and children, and the indiscriminate killing of Indian soldiers and civilians by the avenging British armies.

Historians have identified diverse political, economic, military, religious and social causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 (War of Independence 1857). An uprising in several sepoy companies of the Bengal army was sparked by the issue of new gunpowder cartridges for the Enfield rifle in February 1857.

False : "the strike began on september 8, 1965"