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what was Jallianwalah bagh incident? |
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Answer» Jallianwallah bagh incident is happened on 13 April of 1919. In that year an act was passed by sir Sidney rowlatt. Name of act is ROWLATT ACT. That act given police more power. They can arrest anyone and imprison for 2 years without any trial. For this injustice Mahatma Gandhi started non-cooperation movement by harthal on April 6. All people of India had started striking against rowlatt act. It had reached in cities. At that time police fired in a peaceful session. General dyer had imposed martial law and ordered police to enter at Jallianwallah bagh and close enter and exit point. So many people came there to celebrate baisakhi and some came for strike against rowlatt act. And police closed the enter and exit point and fired ay jalliian wallah Bagh and more people had died and more had injured. \tOn 13th April 1919, the infamous Jallianwala Bagh incident took place.\tOn that day, a crowd of villagers who had come to Amritsar to attend a fair gathered in the enclosed ground of Jallianwala Bagh.\tBeing from outside the city, they were unaware of the martial law that had been imposed.\tGeneral Dyer entered the area, blocked the only exit point, and opened fire on the crowd, killing and wounding hundreds of people.\tHis objective was to ‘produce a moral effect’ to create in the minds of satyagrahis, a feeling of terror and awe.\tAs the news spread, crowds took to the streets. There were strikes, clashes with police and attacks on government buildings. The government responded with brutal repression. Seeing violence spread, Mahatma Gandhi called off the movement. Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Jallianwala also spelled Jallianwalla, also called Massacre of Amritsar, incident on April 13, 1919, in which British troops fired on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in an open space known as the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of India, killing several hundred people and wounding many hundreds more. It marked a turning point in India’s modern history, in that it left a permanent scar on Indo-British relations and was the prelude to Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi’s full commitment to the cause of Indian nationalism and independence from Britain. |
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