A small force from home will be sufficient [to divide and conquer India], as we are always sure to have any number we please of Indian troops, who, being both much better paid and treated by us than by their own country's powers, will very readily enter our service.

—Robert Clive
Letter to the prime minister
1759

How did the Sepoy Rebellion disprove the claims made in Clive’s letter?

Few Indian troops ever joined to serve with the British.
Indian troops fought against the British because they felt poorly treated.
Indian troops refused to fight a battle that would have won India for Britain.