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Some Indians were upset with the draconian rule of the Company who had embarked on a project of territorial expansion and westernization that was imposed without any regard for historical subtleties in Indian society.

Many Indians felt that the company was asking for heavy tax from the locals. This included an increase in the taxation on land. This seems to have been a very important reason for the spread of the rebellion, keeping in view the speed at which they ignited in many villages in northern India where farmers rushed to get back their unfairly grabbed title deeds.

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There are many reasons for revolt but the main reason of revolt was ,when the  british  officers bring new  enfield  rifle the  sepoys  and other people thought that    cartiridges  of gun were made up of  fat of  cow and pig. Cows  were  considerd  holy by  hindus  and Pigs were  considerd  unclean by  muslims . This created a thought in mind of people  that,british  are here to destroy their religion. Because of   sepoy  refused to use the  enfield  rifle  and  action of  british  was eighty-five  sepoys  were dismissed from services and sentenced of ten years jail.

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Mangal   Panday   attack on their officers in  Barrackpore  and was hanged on death on 29 March 1857.  On 10 May soldiers marched to the jail in Meerut and released the imprisoned  sepoys   they also attack and killed the  british  officers. On 10 May they marched to Delhi whole night and mad3e  Bahadur  Shah  Zafar  the leader.  Revolt spread very fast as people were angry already on  british .

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The  sepoy   were Indian soldiers who were recruited into the Company's army. Just before the rebellion, there were over 300,000  sepoys  in the army, compared to about 50,000 British. The forces were divided into three presidency armies :  Bombay,Madras  and Bengal. The Bengal army recruited higher castes, such as Brahmins,  rajputs  and  Bhumihar , mostly from the  Awadh  and Bihar regions, and even restricted the enlistment of lower castes in 1855. In contrast, the Madras Army and Bombay Army were "more localized, caste-neutral armies" that "did not prefer high-caste men".   The domination of higher castes in the Bengal Army has been blamed in part for initial mutinies that led to the rebellion

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Britishers  started giving respect to the religion of Indians. They reduced the number of Indian  soliders  in  army and  increses   british    soliders  . They decided not to take  soliders  from  Awadh,Bihar  Central India and South India and take  soliders  from  Gurkhas   Sikhsand   Pathans.Policies  were made to protect the landlords and  zamindars  and give them security of right over their lands.

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