The close link existed between the Sepoys and the rural world of North India during the 1850s as a large number of Sepoys were being recruited in Bengal Army. Name the region which is called the 'Nursery of the Bengal Army'.

Awadh

Elsewhere, local leaders emerged, urging peasants, zamindars and tribals to revolt. Shah Mal mobilised the villagers of pargana Barout in Uttar Pradesh; Gonoo, a tribal cultivator of Singhbhum in Chotanagpur, became a rebel leader of the Kol tribals of the region.