Following the suppression of the uprising, British authorities decided not to recruit troops from the eastern plains, and the new Bengal Army was to be recruited primarily from the Sikh and Muslim communities of the Punjab.
在鎮壓起義之後，英國當局決定不從東部平原招募部隊，新的孟加拉軍隊將主要從旁遮普邦的錫克人和穆斯林社區招募。