White mutiny

The White Mutiny was the unrest that occurred at the dissolution in 1858–59 of the "European Forces" of the East India Company in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

There was another incident which occurred in India in 1766, the Monghyr Mutiny: a "White mutiny" among British brigadiers, on occasion of their reduced military allowances, which was suppressed by Robert Clive.

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