Besides in the 60s racial riots in Singapore, during the British
rule…this incidence took place.
Feb 15, 1915:
Mutiny breaks out among Indian soldiers in Singapore
In Singapore on this day in 1915, Indian soldiers launch the
first large-scale mutiny of World War I.
Some 800 soldiers in the Indian army’s 5th Light Infantry
Brigade broke out of their barracks on the afternoon of February 15
and killed several British officers before moving on to other areas
of the city. By the time the revolt was quashed, several days
later, by British, French and Russian troops, the mutineers had
killed 39 Europeans—both soldiers and civilians. British soldiers
executed 37 of the mutiny’s ringleaders by gunfire.
The Singapore Mutiny was intended by its organizers to be part
of a general uprising being engineered by Sikh militants in
neighboring India against British colonial rule. The Sikhs—whose
religion combined elements of Hinduism and Islam—had earned
favorable treatment from the British after their refusal to take
part in an earlier mutiny in India in 1857, but some still chafed
against the constraints of the empire. The Indian rebellion in 1915
enjoyed encouragement from the Germans, whose ship, the Bayern, had
recently been intercepted by the Italians with a cargo of 500,000
revolvers, 100,000 rifles and 200,000 cases of ammunition intended
to aid the militants. The rebels in India were betrayed in March
1915 by a police spy, and the leaders were arrested before they
could signal the start of the revolt. Eighteen were hanged.
Despite such insurrections, many Indians from across the country
continued to volunteer to serve the British empire in World War I.
The first Indian Victoria Cross for bravery had been awarded on the
Western Front in January 1915. Mahatma Gandhi, champion of passive
resistance and leader of the struggle for Indian home rule, played
an active role in the recruitment of Indian soldiers during World
War I, writing later that If we would improve our status through
the help and cooperation of the British, it was our duty to win
their help by standing by them in their hour of need.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/muti…
1915 Singapore Mutiny
The 1915 Singapore Mutiny, also known as the 1915 Sepoy Mutiny,
or Mutiny of the 5th Native Light Infantry was a mutiny involving
up to half of 850 sepoys (Indian soldiers) against the British in
Singapore during the First World War, linked with the 1915 Ghadar
Conspiracy. The mutiny, on 15 February 1915, lasted nearly seven
days and resulted in the deaths of 47 British soldiers and local
civilians, before it was finally quelled by British forces and
Allied naval detachments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1915_Singapore_Mutiny
