This massacre destroyed the image of Britain forever
It was on the sacred day of the Baisakhi festival, April 13, 1919, that some 25,000 men, women and children gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh, then a debris-littered compound. The occasion was a peaceful public meeting held to assert the right of the people to assemble and protest which was curbed by the martial law imposed by then Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, Michael O’ Dyer. Many just came in after offering their prayers at the Golden Temple. Soon after the meeting started, General Dyer and his troops arrived with the guns. As the machine guns started raining bullets, the dead piled upon the dead. There were tall buildings on four sides of the enclosure and the only exit was blocked by guns. The result was a stampede. Women and children were crushed under the feet of those trying to escape the firing.
Many jumped into the well and a few sought shelter behind the small temple in the enclosure. As many as 379 people were killed on the spot and three times more wounded to die later. As many as 120 bodies were recovered from the well into which people jumped to escape the bullets. Horrified by the presentation of a siropa (robe of honour) to General Dyer by the priest of the Golden Temple, the Akalis launched the Gurdwara Reform Movement to guard the sanctity of the religious places. The Bharat Naujawan Sabha which was to produce revolutionary patriots like Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh was also launched then.
It was on the sacred day of the Baisakhi festival, April 13, 1919, that some 25,000 men, women and children gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh, then a debris-littered compound. The occasion was a peaceful public meeting held to assert the right of the people to assemble and protest which was curbed by the martial law imposed by then Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, Michael O’ Dyer. Many just came in after offering their prayers at the Golden Temple. Soon after the meeting started, General Dyer and his troops arrived with the guns. As the machine guns started raining bullets, the dead piled upon the dead. There were tall buildings on four sides of the enclosure and the only exit was blocked by guns. The result was a stampede. Women and children were crushed under the feet of those trying to escape the firing.
Many jumped into the well and a few sought shelter behind the small temple in the enclosure. As many as 379 people were killed on the spot and three times more wounded to die later. As many as 120 bodies were recovered from the well into which people jumped to escape the bullets. Horrified by the presentation of a siropa (robe of honour) to General Dyer by the priest of the Golden Temple, the Akalis launched the Gurdwara Reform Movement to guard the sanctity of the religious places. The Bharat Naujawan Sabha which was to produce revolutionary patriots like Chandra Shekhar Azad and Bhagat Singh was also launched then.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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