Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

India [1919]

Also known as: Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre, Massacre of Amritsar(Show More)

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Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, incident on April 13, 1919, in which British troops opened fire on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in a garden called the Jallianwala Bagh (bagh meaning “garden”) in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of colonized India, killing several hundred people and wounding many hundreds more. It marked a turning point in India’s independence struggle, in that it left a permanent scar on Indo-British relations and was the...

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