Answer:
(i) Certainly, the relationship of the sepoys with their superior white officers underwent a significant change in the years preceding the uprising of 1857.
(ii) White officers made it a point in 1920s to keep cordial relations with the sepoys. They would participate in their leisure activities, they wrestled with them, fenced with them and went out hawking with them.
(iii) Many of white orricers could speak and understand Hindustani language fluently. They were also familiar with the customs and culture of the country.
(iv) In the 1840s, this fabric of friendly relationship began to change. The white officers developed a sense of superiority and began treating the sepoys as their racial inferiors, riding roughshod over their sensibilities. Then abuse and physical violence became common and thus the distance between sepoys and officers grew. ?Trust was replaced by doubt. The episode of the greased carnages was a classic example of this increasing suspicion.
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