Question

Write a short note on the jalianwala bagh massarce

Answer 1

• The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April 1919.

• On Sunday, 13 April 1919,  General Dyer, convinced a major insurrection could take place, banned all meetings.

• This notice was not widely disseminated, and many villagers gathered in the Bagh to celebrate the important Sikh festival of Baisakhi, and peacefully protest the arrest and deportation of two national leaders.

• Dyer and his troops entered the garden, blocking the main entrance behind them, took up position on a raised bank, and with no warning opened fire on the crowd for about ten minutes, directing their bullets largely towards the few open gates through which people were trying to flee, until the ammunition supply was almost exhausted.

• Casualties  reported were 379 deaths, and 192 seriously wounded.  Around 120 bodies were found in the Marty's Well.

• This event caused many moderate Indians to abandon their loyalty to the British and become nationalists distrustful of the British.

• Rabindranath Tagore received the news of the massacre by 22 May 1919. He tried to arrange a protest meeting in Calcutta and finally decided to renounce his British knighthood as "a symbolic act of protest"

Answer 2

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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Jallianwala also spelled Jallianwalla, also called Massacre of Amritsar, incident on April 13, 1919, in which British troops fired on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in an open space known as the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of India, killing several hundred people and wounding many hundreds more. It marked a turning point in India’s modern history, in that it left a permanent scar on Indo-British relations and was the prelude to Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi’s full commitment to the cause of Indian nationalism and independence from Britain.

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