The Indian Mutiny was arguably the most bitter of the British 19th-century colonial campaigns. Although the fighting spluttered on into 1859, the Mutiny effectively finished in 1858. The days of the Honourable East India Company ended, and those of the British Raj began as the Crown took control of India. The old Company armies merged into a new Indian Army, with the so-called "martial races" as its backbone, with Sikhs and Gurkhas dominant and justly famed as fighting men.
The Mutiny left some British paranoid about the possibility of further outbreaks, with warnings to incoming officers to maintain their vigilance. The British never found Nana Sahib, although expeditions sought him and rumours and speculation abounded.
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