Indian independence · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Jallianwala Bagh massacre (1919)
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13 Apr 1919 — In a walled garden in Amritsar, Brigadier Dyer’s fifty rifles fire 1,650 rounds into an unarmed Baisakhi crowd until ammunition runs low. 379 dead by official count; Indian estimates near a thousand. The Raj’s claim to rule by consent dies here. Remember them.
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- Amritsar massacre (chapter 6 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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