From which region majority of the sepoys of the 'Bengal Army' were recruited during the British rule?

Villages of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh.

The correct answer is Option 1 - Villages of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh.

In the 1840s the officers developed a sense of superiority and started treating the sepoys as their racial inferiors, riding roughshod over their sensibilities. Abuse and physical violence became common and thus the distance between sepoys and officers grew. Trust was replaced by suspicion. The episode of the greased cartridges was a classic example of this.

It is also important to remember that close links existed between the sepoys and the rural world of North India. The large majority of the sepoys of the Bengal Army were recruited from the villages of Awadh and eastern Uttar Pradesh. Many of them were Brahmins or from the “upper” castes. Awadh was, in fact, called the “nursery of the Bengal Army’’.