Why did the Sepoy Mutiny not spread all across India? Was its

>>1472842
The rebellion failed for a number of reasons, namely a lack of co-ordination due to the spontaneous nature of the uprising combined with the cultural and geographic vastness of India which made communication between the rebels more difficult than it otherwise would have been in a smaller state.
As well as this, the rebels did not set out a clear agenda for what a post-colonial India would look like and their disparate aims and motivations made victory unlikely as the rebels were divided along religious lines and were fighting for different things, the one thing they had in common being a desire to see the British gone. Had it not been for the British then it is certain that these rebels would have likely been warring against one another as they had done for millennia prior and to an extent still do today.

Lastly, the rebels lacked the support among the upper classes and intelligentsia of India not to mention the rising merchant class, all of whom tied their security and prospects to continued British rule which gave the British much needed materials. Among the "ordinary" folk little had changed meaning that millions of ordinary Indians did not particularly care whether or not the rebellion was successful.

there were of course many other factors, including the personal shortcomings of the rebellion's leaders such as Peshwa, but the reasons outlined above explain broadly why the rebellion failed and was ultimately defeated. Many of those reasons can also be extrapolated to help account for why no major subsequent rebellions were attempted.

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>>1472842
George Fleury and Harry Dunstaple were also major influences, given that they managed to get Hari (the Maharjah's son) on board, and also Fleury with his shit poetry which acted as a form of psychological warfare against the rebels.