#Sepoymutiny

The Revolt, which broke out in Meerut 169 years ago on May 10, 1857, failed to dislodge British colonial rule over India. But it ended the East India Company’s control, with governance moving to the Crown instead.

Contemporary corporate and geopolitical power relies on narratives that make structural violence disappear into abstractions. Like sepoys of 1857, when farmers, workers, indigenous peoples or small states push back, the dominant frames often pathologise…