ConflictEast India Company rule
Vellore Mutiny
Indian sepoys of the Madras Army rose against the East India Company at Vellore Fort over new dress regulations.
On 10 July 1806 sepoys of the Madras Army garrison at Vellore Fort attacked the British troops and officers there. The grievances included new regulations on turbans, facial hair and caste marks that sepoys saw as an attack on their religious and social customs. The fort also housed the family of Tipu Sultan, and the plotters had gathered under cover of a family wedding. The rising was crushed the same day by a relief force from Arcot, with heavy loss of life. The Commander-in-Chief John Craddock and Governor William Bentinck were recalled, and it was the first large-scale sepoy mutiny against the Company, half a century before 1857.
