The Amritsar Massacre: the untold story of one fateful day/

"On 13 April 1919, a fateful event took place which was to define the last decades of the British Raj in India. At 5:10pm on that day, Brigadier-General 'Rex' Dyer led a small party of soldiers through the centre of Amritsar into a walled garden known as the Jallianwala Bagh. He had b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lloyd, Nick
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.
Subjects:
Amritsar Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919.
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=Z6X3AgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=the+amritsar+massacre&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwlvO1nsDYAhXG3SYKHSOrCpUQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=the%20amritsar%20massacre&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • The Raj in an age of change
  • The Great War and reform in India
  • Gandhi and the Rowlatt Satyagraha
  • Hartals, processions and arrests
  • Violence in Ahmedabad
  • O'Dwyer in the Punjab
  • A great calamity in Amritsar
  • A terrible quietness
  • Protest and response in Lahore
  • A serious rising at Kasur
  • The high-water mark
  • Causes and conspiracies
  • The introduction of martial law
  • Fancy punishments and erratic acts
  • Lord Hunter and the Disorders Inquiry Committee
  • Debates and disagreements
  • Dyer and the Jallianwala Bagh
  • Shadows of Amritsar
  • Amritsar and the British in India
  • Operation Blue Star.

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