jalliawala bagh massacre killed by british

The Rowlett act was in a way the extension of the Defence of India Regulations Act 1915, which was an emergency criminal low which Gave sweeping powers to the viceroy. The power of preventive detention, internment without trial, restriction of writing speech and movement

1. JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE Er . Saroj Kumar School Teacher GMS NAVTOL

2. Background of Jallianwala Bagh The Rowlett act was in a way the extension of the Defence of India Regulations Act 1915, which was an emergency criminal low which Gave sweeping powers to the viceroy. The power of preventive detention, internment without trial, restriction of writing speech and movement

3. Protest which were chosen was a nationwide hartal , fasting and prayer Civil Disobedience against specific low April 6, 1919 choosen as the first All India Strike Day Mass Scale resistance grow across the subcontinent Anti British Discrimination in Calcutta, Bombay, Delhi and Ahmedabad

4. In Punjab, the situation becomes very explosive due to wartime repression, forcible recruitments and ravages of diseases The Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, Michael O’Dwyer , On 9 th April, Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr Satyapal , were arrested by the British Officials under Rowlatt Provisions

5. Brigadier General Reginald Dyer and his troops were deployed and martial low was imposed Dyer allegedly issued a proclamation on 13 th april forbidding people from leaving the city without a pass and from organising demonstrations or processions , or assembling in groups of more than three On 13 th April, Baisakhi, unsuspected crowd builds up in Jallianwala Bagh

6. Dyer arrived on the scene with his man. The troops surrounded the gathering under orders from general Dyer and blocked the only exit point and opened fire on the unarmed crowd No warning was issued, no instruction to disperse was given An unarmed gathering of men, women and children was fired upon as they tried to flee

7. 1650 bullets fired and darkest moment of colonialism in india According to British officals reports initially stated 379 deaths, with arounds 1200 wounded The entire nation was stunned. Ravindranath Tagore renounced his Knighthood in protest Gandhi gave up the title of Kaiser- i -Hind Gandhi withdrew the movement on April 18 th 1919

8. IN THE AFTRMATHOF THE MASSACRE Montengue-chelmsford orderd enquiry committee to investigate into the massacre. Hunter commission was formed Willam Hunter was chairman, and 3 Indians were part of it namely Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad , pandit Jagat Narayan, and Sardar Sahibzada Sultan Ahmed Khan . Hunter commission did not impose any penel or disciplinary action because Dyer’s actions were upheld by the Army council HUNTER COMMISSION

9. Congress Committee The non official committee included Motilal Nehru, Chitranjan Das, Abbas Tyabji , M. R. ayakar and Gandhi, Criticised the inhuman actions of Dyer and argued no justification of martial low in Punjab

10. Assassination of Michael O’Dyer On March 13, 1940 at Caxton Hall in London, Udham Singh assassinated Michael O’Dyer , the former lieutenant Governor of Punjab, in retaliation for his role in endorsing General Reginald Dyer’s actions during the jallianwala bagh Massacre . Udham singh who had himself been wouned in the massacre sought revenge for the atrocity . Notably Dyer had already passed away in 1927