Modern European history . THE INDIAN MUTINY 489 and by putting their native armies under British direction. Such is thecondition of many of them at the present day. The English also advanced to the north and northv/est, from Ben-gal. One of their most important annexations was that of the Punjab,an immense territory on the Indus, taken as a result of Annexationtwo difficult wars (1845 to 1S49), and the Oudh province, of theone of the richest sections of India, lying between the ™^^Punjab and Bengal, annexed in 1856. The steady march of English conquest aroused a bitter feeling ofhostility to t
Modern European history . THE INDIAN MUTINY 489 and by putting their native armies under British direction. Such is thecondition of many of them at the present day. The English also advanced to the north and northv/est, from Ben-gal. One of their most important annexations was that of the Punjab,an immense territory on the Indus, taken as a result of Annexationtwo difficult wars (1845 to 1S49), and the Oudh province, of theone of the richest sections of India, lying between the ™^^Punjab and Bengal, annexed in 1856. The steady march of English conquest aroused a bitter feeling ofhostility to the English, which came to a head in the famous SepoyMutiny of 1857, which for a time threatened the complete overthrowof the British in northern India. There were various causes of this in-surrection: the bitter discontent of the deposed princes and their ad-herents, who sent out emissaries to stir up hatred against the intruders;the fear of other princes that their turn might come; the introductionof railways and teleg
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