general reginald dwyers massacre of hundreds of innocent unarmed men, women and children celebrating a festival
General Dyer ordered fire at Jallianwala Bagh. Micheal Odwyer (Viceroy) ordered him to do so.
Jallianwala Bagh took place in a time when the British had nearly full control of India. This was ina Punjabi town called Amritsar. The British had said that if any big meetings form to overthrow the British, they would come and do horrible things. In Jallianwala Bagh's case this took place in a sacred place to the Punjab called Jallianwala Bagh. It had only one narrow entrance and a well. A meeting was formed there by the Punjabs. The Punjabs were caught by the British. The British open fired and killed atleast 100 people. This was known as the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Later, Jallianwala Bagh became known as the synonym of a massacre.
general dyre
Rabindranath tagore
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knighthood
In Amritsar, over 5,000 people gathered at Jallianwala Bagh.
Rabindranath Tagore.
Ram Muhammad AZAD Singh
Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in 1919 after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, India, as a form of protest against British colonial rule and the violent actions of the British government in India. Tagore felt that he could not hold onto a title bestowed by a government responsible for such atrocities.
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