EVENT INFORMATION

13
April
1919

British troops massacre civilians at Jallianwala Bagh

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📅 13 April 1919 📍 India

During the Baisakhi gathering in Amritsar, troops under Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer fired into a trapped crowd that included people attending a festival and people protesting colonial repression. Official and Indian estimates of deaths differ; the Hunter inquiry recorded 379, while other contemporary Indian accounts placed the toll higher. The massacre intensified opposition to British rule and became a turning point in India's freedom struggle.

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Reginald Dyer

Rabindranath Tagore

Indian civilians and pilgrims

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

British Indian Army

Hunter Commission