1857 the year of brit folly

The brits have a nasty habit of experimenting with stuff which has obvious results . They put in practise a cartridge which had to be bitten by the soldiers to load. Knowing that the soldiers have deep religous convictions on the do's and donts on diet and touch the bite on a grease that had obvious raminifications. To load both the old musket and the new rifle, soldiers had to bite the cartridge open and pour the gunpowder it contained into the rifle's muzzle, then stuff the cartridge case, which was typically paper coated with some kind of grease to make it waterproof, into the musket as wadding, before loading it with a ball. Increasing size of the company control of the Indian subcontinent also meant a long chain of command & information with vulnerabilty to disinformation like the Mughal empire of the yester years. The grease and its stinky similarity to the animal fat could not have been missed by even the most devoted anglophiles among soldiers.
Rumors were already doing rounds in this subcontinent of instant saints and soothsayers in particular spreading an old prophecy that the Company's rule would end after a hundred years. Their rule in India had begun with the Battle of Plassey in 1757. Chapaties and Lotus Flowers began to circulate around large parts of India, quoting the famous line "Sub lal hogea hai." (Everything has become Red.), passed around by people from town to town and village to village, as a symbol of the prophecy and a sign of the coming revolt.
Combining this with the reluctance of the commanding general to see reason projected by officers of the building unrest with a simple question " how can it happen now "

what do you think was the writing on the wall ? a victory for the brits in couple of battles but what about the war ?