Indian Mutiny and Taiping Rebellion
by Lillian Bonar
Essay: Indian Mutiny and Taiping Rebellion
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Compare and contrast the ‘Indian Mutiny’ and the Taiping rebellion as indigenous reactions to globalization.
The Indian Mutiny (1857-1858) and Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) were a result of Britain’s desire for a global
empire. This desire is called globalization and is defined by John Darwin in his work as, “The growth of global
connectedness.” With the help of new technologies and appealing goods, Britain was successful in connecting
their world to the Asian world during the 19th Century. For a long time, the British wanted to move deeper into
the India and China to improve their global influence. Merchants disliked restraints on trade, missionaries wanted
to convert more people to Christianity, and sailors demanded more ports for docking. Once India and China were
influenced by the British Empire, they reacted to the globalization in two specifically different ways that also had
many similarities. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the Indian Mutiny and Chinese Taiping
Rebellion as indigenous reactions to globalization in the following areas: British influence, religion and education,
economics and socio-politics. Both the Taiping rebellion and the Indian Mutiny were reactions against
globalization in the form of British imperialism, but the Taiping rebellion took its inspiration from Western ideas
and attacked Chinese traditions, while the Indian Mutiny was an assault on British invasion and an attempt to
preserve their traditional culture.
The Taiping rebellion was not a rebellion against foreign authorities like that of the British, but an upheaval
against local authority after western ideas were introduced into the Chinese culture. The Rebellion was a civil war
led by Christian convert Hong Xiuquan ag...