Comments by "Voryn Rosethorn" (@vorynrosethorn903) on "Disturban History" channel.

The rebellion was highly regionalised and caste played a part as the soldiers in the other company armies were largely of lower caste they had less interest in the grievances of the rebels and felt there was more to lose. The main divide between those how rebelled and those who didn't wasn't religion with the exception of the Sikhs who even besides the larger dislike for many of the groups making up the rebellion also showed unwillingness to stand aside and watch the massacres on an individual level often at the cost to their own lives. It bears mentioning that cowpor changed the war, before it many even in Britain had had some sympathy for the rebels (the East India Company didn't have the best reputation even then) and other European powers had some hope that it might undermine British power. Cowpor ended that, critics of the Empire at home were silenced and Europe moved to show solidarity with Britain (partly because a good few of the Europeans killed in the many little massacres weren't British) against barbarism. In India as well it caused a sea change, many Indians were as horrified as the British and such sentiment were enough to push off the fence sitters if not through sympathy through the blood thirstyness the British and their Indian loyalists started displaying. Within India British officers were close knit enough that many had known of at least bumped into at some point one of the wife's or children killed and more than a few had lost their own family, less but still quite the number of Indian troops especially the higher up ones would have recognised a few of the names of the list of the dead, on top of this the British marched the troops coming to fight the rebels past the site of the massacre and quite the number saw the bodies and would recognised some among them. As a result both British and Indian troops had very little inclination to mercy and bayonet changes to the warcry of "Cowpor" along with the justification of killing people even for not fighting the rebels and with a kill the all and let God sort them out mentality became commonplace. It is also of note that such actions were an oddity in British military action with the stance typically being taken that the gentle rider would not have to worry about being kicked by the horse and thus they left brutality to the tax collectors (and a tactic that worked very well for British Imperialism as brave rebels soon become hated bandits if the occupiers act better than them and pay their keep).
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@drunkcat1713 Indeed I got it from a mushroom. Not sure why the mushroom is Welsh but sure.
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