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Today I learned O'Dwyer was assassinated and I have never known such peace in my life

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Today's History, 13 March; आज के दिन उधम सिंह ने जनरल डायर को लंदन में मारी थी गोली, पढ़ें 13 मार्च का इतिहास

Today's History, 13 March; आज के दिन उधम सिंह ने जनरल डायर को लंदन में मारी थी गोली, पढ़ें 13 मार्च का इतिहास

History of the Day, 13 March: देश को गुलामी की जंजीरों से मुक्त कराने के लिए सैकड़ों युवाओं ने जान की बाजी लगा दी थी। ऐसे ही एक महान क्रांतिकारी थे पंजाब में जन्मे भारत माता के अमर सपूत ऊधम सिंह। ऊधम सिंह पर अमृतसर के जलियांवाला बाग नरसंहार का गहरा असर पड़ा और उन्होंने हर कीमत पर इसका बदला लेने का प्रण लिया। वह इस घटना का बदला लेने के लिए लंदन तक गए और वहां जाकर पंजाब के तत्कालीन लेफ्टिनेंट…

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quick reminder that over 1200 people died in Jallianwala Bagh on 13th April 1919

quick reminder that over a thousand more were injured

quick reminder that the whole crowd gathered there were protesting peacefully without arms

quick reminder that Rudyard Kipling said that "Dyer did his duty as he saw it"

quick reminder that the British tried to suppress this information and said that only around 350 people died

quick reminder that even after 102 years of this incident, Britain has not formally apologised to us

quick reminder that Dyer was worse than a monster

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Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Imperial Legislative Council of British India passed the Rowlatt Act, 1919. This Act gave the power to arrest ordinary people without any trial. Background: The Indian had helped the British in the first world war. The Indian seemed that after the war is over, there will be a system of governance for deciding well being of the Indians. War affected Indians regarding increasing the prices,…

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Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Rowlatt Act and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Imperial Legislative Council of British India passed the Rowlatt Act, 1919. This Act gave the power to arrest ordinary people without any trial. Background: The Indian had helped the British in the first world war. The Indian seemed that after the war is over, there will be a system of governance for deciding well being of the Indians. War affected Indians regarding increasing the prices,…

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Thought for the Day 71/2021

Thought for the Day 71/2021

“Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them.”. – Yajurveda Continue reading

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उत्तर प्रदेश में आएगा 'जनरल डायर' ! बीजेपी नहीं करेगी विरोध !

उत्तर प्रदेश में आएगा 'जनरल डायर' ! बीजेपी नहीं करेगी विरोध ! #generaldyer #aap #bjp #upelection

जल्दी ही यूपी के लोग खास तौर पर पश्चिमी उत्तर प्रदेश के लोग ‘जनरल डायर’ को देख सकेंगे. इतना ही नहीं वो ‘जनरल डायर’ का भाषण भी सुन पाएंगे. जनरल एडवर्ड हैरी डायर वो शख्स है जिसने जलियां वाला बाग में निहत्थे सत्याग्रहियों पर गोली चलाने के आदेश दिए थे और इस कांड में करीब 500 लोग मारे गए थे. कुछ लोग गोलियों से नहीं मरे लेकिन जान बचाने के लिए कुओं में कूद गए और वहां मारे गए.  बाद में जनरल डायर ने बाद…

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Remembering Jallianwala Bagh massacre 97 years later

The calculated massacre of close to 2,000 innocents in Amritsar, Punjab 97 years ago that became a turning point in India’s struggle for freedom from the British.

Popular resentment had been accumulating in Punjab since the beginning of the War (World War I), mainly due to the ruthless drive – by the British — for recruiting soldiers and forced contribution to the war fund. Mahatma Gandhi’s call for a country-wide hartal to protest against the Black Acts received a tremendous response from Punjab on March 30 and again on April 6.

Gandhi’s call for a country-wide hartal to protest against the Black Acts received a tremendous response from Punjab on March 30 and again on April 6. The agitated mood of the people and Hindu-Muslim solidarity demonstrated on the hartal (strike) days and on April 9 celebration of the Ramnavami festival made the Lt Governor Michael O’Dwyer’s administration panicky.

Gandhi’s entry into Punjab was banned: two popular leaders of Amritsar, Kitchlew and Satya Pal, were arrested. These provocations led to hartals and mass demonstrations in Lahore, Kasur, Gujranwala and Amritsar.

In Amritsar, the police firing on demonstrators provoked some of them to commit acts of violence. The next day the city was handed over to Brigadier-General Dyer. Dyer began his regime through indiscriminate arrests and ban on meeting and gatherings.

On April 13 – the day of Baisakhi festival – a meeting was called in the afternoon at the Jallianwala Bagh a ground enclosed on all sides. Thousands of people, many of whom had come from surrounding villages to the fairs in Amritsar and were unaware of the ban order, gathered in the meeting.

Suddenly Dyer appeared there with troops and without any warning to the people, ordered firing on the completely peaceful and defenceless crowd. The fusillade continued till Dyer’s ammunition ran out. Atleast about a thousand people, if not more, are estimated to have been killed. This cold-blooded carnage, Dyer admitted later, was perpetrated "to strike terror not only in the city of Amritsar, but throughout the Punjab?"

The massacre stunned the people and became a turning point in the history of India’s struggle for freedom. Rabindranath Tagore wrote a strong letter of protest to the Viceroy, dated May 31, 1919, renouncing his Knighthood

When asked if he had taken any measures for the relief of the wounded, Dyer replied, ‘‘No, certainly not. It was not my job. But the hospitals were open and the medical officers were there. The wounded only had to apply for help."

Faced with reports that indicted him (British majority report and Indian minority report), the then Viceroy of India, Chelmsford conceded that Dyer "acted beyond the necessity of the case, beyond what any reasonable man could have thought to be necessary, and that he did not act with as much humanity as the case permitted". Dyer had no option but to resign and return to England in disgrace.

Apologists for the Raj in Britain however, bought into Dyer’s claim that it was this bloody firing by Dyer that had saved the Raj in India. This not only reduced the punishment meted out to Dyer, he was also treated as some sort of a hero on his return. In fact, the inquiry itself could only be instituted only after in indemnity law had been passed protecting Dyer and other recalcitrant officers from criminal liability.

- Teesta Setalvad (via Sabrang India)