1919 CE
British troops fire at Jallianwala Bagh
British Empire · War & conquest · Resistance & colonized agency · Law & imperial government · Decolonization & independence · Memory, reparation & restitution
Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered troops to fire without warning into a trapped crowd at Amritsar. The official toll was 379 dead; Indian estimates were higher, so the total remains disputed. The massacre and martial law radicalized opposition; Rabindranath Tagore renounced his British knighthood
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