Define The Incident At Jallianwala Bagh?
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Define The Incident At Jallianwala Bagh?
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On Sunday, 13 April 1919, Dyer was convinced of a major insurrection and he banned all meetings; however this notice was not widely disseminated. That was the day of Baisakhi, the main Sikh festival, and many villagers had gathered in the Bagh. On hearing that a meeting had assembled at Jallianwala Bagh, Dyer went with Sikh, Gurkha, Baluchi, Rajput troops from 2-9th Gurkhas, the 54th Sikhs and the 59th Sind Rifles[4] they entered the garden, blocking the main entrance after them, took up position on a raised bank, and on Dyer's orders fired 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. Dyer stated that approximately 1,650 rounds had been fired, a number apparently derived by counting empty cartridge cases picked up by the troops.[5] Official British Indian sources gave a figure of 379 identified dead,[6] with approximately 1,100 wounded.[citation needed]This figure was given by Dyer himself in the letter he wrote to the British parliament. The casualty number estimated by the Indian National Congress was more than 1,500 injured, with approximately 1,000 dead. This "brutality stunned the entire nation",[7]resulting in a "wrenching loss of faith" of the general public in the intentions of the UK.[8]The ineffective inquiry and the initial accolades for Dyer by the House of Lords fuelled widespread anger, later leading to the Non-cooperation Movement of 1920–22.[9]
Dyer was initially lauded by conservative forces in the empire, but in July 1920 he was censured and forced to retire by the House of Commons.[10] He became a celebrated hero in the UK among most of the people connected to the British Raj,[11] for example, the House of Lords,[12] but unpopular in the House of Commons, which voted against Dyer as a Colonel. He was disciplined by being removed from his appointment, was passed over for promotion and was prohibited from further employment in India.[13][14] Upon his death, Rudyard Kipling declared that Dyer 'did his duty as he saw it'.[15] . This incident shocked Rabindranath Tagore (first Asian Nobel laureate) to such extent that he stated whilst refusing his knighthood that "such mass murderers aren't worthy of giving any title to anyone". The massacre some historians have argued caused a re-evaluation of the army's role, in which the new policy became minimum force; however, later British actions during the Mau Mau insurgencies have led Huw Bennett to question this school of thought.[16] The army was retrained and developed less violent tactics for crowd control.[17] Some historians consider the episode a decisive step towards the end of British rule in India.
The British had no option but open fire. General. Reginald Dyer had given command to open fire. Hundreds were killed in this massacre. And General.Dyer was removed from there by the British Government. This was an important date for Indians to remember, many had jumped into a well near them rather being shot. Now Jallianwala Bagh is in present state of Punjab. Due to this event more and more People started to revolt against the British Government, and joined the Independence movement.
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