The White Mutiny was the unrest that occurred at the dissolution in 1858-59 of the "European Forces" of the East India Company in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
One was that the Governor General, Canning, did not give the "European Forces" notice of their transfer to the "Queen's Army".
[citation needed] Another was a result of Canning's legalistic interpretation of the laws surrounding the transfer.
This was aggravated by influential articles printed by British periodicals of the time that wrongly painted the European Force as undisciplined, unhealthy, and mutinous in nature.
Soldiers of the 1st Bengal European Light Cavalry performed "only guard and barrack duties" and "refused to turn out for parade, and mutinous language was used.