The Rising Ballad of Mangal Pandey ( Enfield Pattern 1853 rifle musket)

The Enfield P53 was introduced to Indian troops under British rule in 1856. The Enfield riflemusket was a contributing cause of the Indian rebellion of 1857. Sepoys in the British East India Company s armies in India were issued with the new rifle in 1857, and rumours were spread that the cartridges (referring here to paperwrapped powder and projectile, not to metallic cartridges) were greased with beef tallow, pig fat, or a combination of the two a situation so abhorrent to Hindu and Muslim soldiers ba