Between Homeland and Ummah: Re-visiting the 1915 Singapore Mutiny of the 5th Light Infantry Regiment of the Indian Army

The aforesaid described the first salvo of what subsequently became the 1915 Singapore Mutiny. For almost a week commencing from the afternoon of 15 February 1915 British colonial Singapore was gripped by an armed mutiny of Indian soldiers set on a killing spree targeting their British superiors, European residents, and local inhabitants. It was an unprecedented phenomenon hitherto unheard and/or even envisaged by any quarter, colonial or native. Apparently a confluence of factors from within and agitations and instigations from without provoked half the sepoys of the 5th Light Infantry Regiment of the Indian Army then garrisoned at Singapore to launch a mutiny with murderous intentions.