"The really significant feature of the Vellore Mutiny is not the brutality and savagery of the sepoys but the enormity of the British response...."
Microsoft Word - A Tale of Two Mutinies.doc (ed.ac.uk)
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The British 'response' to the Great Indian Mutiny of 1857-1859 was just as brutal, going so far to strap captured mutineers to the muzzles of artillery pieces and then firing them. The result was said to be 'spectacular.'
See The Great Indian Mutiny: A Dramatic Account of the Sepoy Rebellion by Richard Collier.