Amritsar, 1919
•1919 anti-British protest took place
•Holiest city for the Sikhs
•Protesters were unarmed
•British overreacted - 379 protesters were killed; 1000 wounded
•Holiest city for the Sikhs
•Protesters were unarmed
•British overreacted - 379 protesters were killed; 1000 wounded
question
Without Amritsar how would public opinions at the time be different?
summery
Massacre of Amritsar, (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’s noncooperation movement of 1920–22.