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Amritsar, Massacre of

1919, India

(April 13, 1919), incident in which British troops fired on a crowd of unarmed Indian protesters, killing a large number. It left a permanent scar on Indo-British relations and was the prelude to Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand)'s Noncooperation Movement of 1920–22.

In 1919 the British government of India enacted the Rowlatt Acts, extending its World War I emergency powers to combat subversive activities. At Amritsar in Punjab, about 10,000 demonstrators unlawfully protesting these measures confronted troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Reginald E.H. Dyer (Dyer, Reginald Edward Harry) in an open space known as the Jallianwalla Bagh, which had only one exit. (The site is now a national monument.) The troops fired on the crowd, killing an estimated 379 and wounding about 1,200 according to one official report. The shooting was followed by the proclamation of martial law, public floggings, and other humiliations. The Hunter Commission condemned General Dyer in 1920, but the House of Lords praised his action, and a fund was raised in his honour.

词条	Amritsar, Massacre of
释义	Amritsar, Massacre of 1919, India (April 13, 1919), incident in which British troops fired on a crowd of unarmed Indian protesters, killing a large number. It left a permanent scar on Indo-British relations and was the prelude to Mahatma Gandhi (Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand)'s Noncooperation Movement of 1920–22. In 1919 the British government of India enacted the Rowlatt Acts, extending its World War I emergency powers to combat subversive activities. At Amritsar in Punjab, about 10,000 demonstrators unlawfully protesting these measures confronted troops commanded by Brig. Gen. Reginald E.H. Dyer (Dyer, Reginald Edward Harry) in an open space known as the Jallianwalla Bagh, which had only one exit. (The site is now a national monument.) The troops fired on the crowd, killing an estimated 379 and wounding about 1,200 according to one official report. The shooting was followed by the proclamation of martial law, public floggings, and other humiliations. The Hunter Commission condemned General Dyer in 1920, but the House of Lords praised his action, and a fund was raised in his honour.
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