The Sedition Committee – as the Rowlatt Committee was officially called – was formed by Lord Chelmsford (Viceroy) on December 10, 1917, and headed by Mr.
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Without getting into the details of the events that led to the gory massacre of Bharatiyas at Jallianwalla Bagh, the most pertinent catalyst in the chain of events that led to that fateful day in Amritsar, a stone’s throw away from the holiest shrine of the Sikhs – Harmandir Sahib, aka “Golden Temple” – was the series of protests against the decidedly repressive Rowlatt Bill. The second was the emergence of Mohandas Gandhi as a political leader in Bharat, while the third was the “ development of Pan-Islamism as a force in Indian politics.“ The first was the Rowlatt Bills and “ reign of terror” unleashed in Punjab and whose highlight was the wanton massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh and the “ barbarous enforcement of martial law” in the state. Of the four “outstanding” events in the context of British rule in Bharat in 1919, there are three that have had a long lasting impact, and that affects the national psyche of our nation and the Bharatiya sub-continent even today.
Horniman was a British journalist and editor of the Bombay Chronicle who published this book in 1920, a year after the Jallianwalla Bagh murders. Horniman’s book, “ Amritsar and Our Duty to India“. 11 – “ Struggle for Freedom” – of the fantabulous “History and Culture of the Indian People”, edited by the legendary historian, RC Mazumdar. Second, the Amar Chitra Katha comic titled Jallianwalla Bagh. First, my own visit to Jallianwalla Bagh and the photos I took there. For this post I will rely on three sources. However, things not posted then will get posted now. I have been wanting to write a post on the massacre at Jallianwalla Bagh in Amritsar on the 13th of April 1919, since April 2010 when I had visited Punjab and the holy city of Amritsar. Eventually, he was hailed as a “saviour” of the British Empire, a “hero”, and feted by the men and ladies of the Empire. He declared a curfew in the town that day, preventing any medical help from reaching the dying. Dyer then marched away, leaving the dying to die. For ten minutes the firing continued, and at the end of which a thousand people lay dead, and many more injured. In a nutshell, what happened on Ap(the Sikh new year) was this: Brigadier General Dyer entered the park that was Jallianwalla Bagh (in the holy Sikh city of Amritsar and a stone’s throw from the holiest Sikh shrine – Harmandir Sahib), with his soldiers, where a peaceful rally of close to ten thousand people had been taking place, and ordered his soldiers to shoot to kill at this mass of men, women, and children. The Jallianwalla Bagh murders of over one thousand people, however, could not be glossed over. The Bengal famine genocide, in which more than 3 million Bharatiyas were starved to death through a deliberate system of deprivation of food and denial of aid, comes at the top of the list, but since that genocide happened over a period of several years, it has still not been acknowledged as pre-meditated mass-murder. The Jallianwalla Bagh murders on the 13th of April, 1919 – on the holy day of Baisakhi, and a stone’s throw from Harmandir Sahib, the holy shrine of the Sikhs – were perhaps the second most brutal act by the British empire against the citizens of its Bharatiya colony in the twentieth century. How do you shoot more than one thousand defenceless, unarmed, peaceful men, women, the elderly, and children in cold blood? How do you get honoured as a hero, as saviour, by your countrymen for saying you would have murdered even more women and children had you been able to? That, my dear fellows, is a question that does not seem to have troubled most people.
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