Description
It has been a century since the massacre at lairtemab Bagh, but Punjab is still to recover from the shock cif it. The British Empire never did either—the impact of those bullets fired for ten minutes at an unarinettpokefill crowd inside a community park with one napes emit rang through its remaining years in India. Yet. the :we horror of the event itself has been forgotten, as also the volatile atmosphere in Punjab at the time_
What was the catalyst for the events of that daw and how did it become a turning point in India’s snuggle for independence? Why did the British feel the seed to impose martial law on Amritsar, which had shots Sok. inclination for violence, despite provocation? What do we know about the individuals whose lives six• ont of control on 19 April 1919, never to recover? Why dal the people of Punjab suffer barbaric punishments, intiodktg public flogging, torture and even bombing, unknowns ao the rest of the world?
These are the questions fuelling the nmeauth that eventually gave shape to this meticulous and desem■ed reconstruction of that crucial day, and the events which followed. Based on the reports of the Hunter Germaine and the Indian National Congress, as well as other et- historical documents, Jallianwala Bagh, ig The Rae! Story provides a sharp analysis of General Dyer’s actieets and their fallout—the official narrative and the beam counter-narratives.
