 The 1915 Singapore Mutiny , also known as the 1915 Sepoy Mutiny , or Mutiny of the 5th Light Infantry was a mutiny involving up to half of 850 sepoys ( Indian soldiers ) against the British in Singapore during the First World War , linked with the 1915 Ghadar Conspiracy . The mutiny , on 15 February 1915 , lasted nearly seven days, and ended when the mutineers were surrounded by British troops. everybody was looking for a way to get rid of the British.
The mutiny was linked with the Ghadar Party , a revolutionary group based in the United States , which had launched an armed uprising in India against the British Raj