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The Jalianwalla Bagh

The Jalianwalla Bagh
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. . . .The power entrusted to Beames, at age twenty-three with no experience, is telling. The Jalianwalla Bagh massacre of 1919, evidence of the tragic side of such official power, is telling as well. ~ Page 95

The Terrible massacre, the worst in the history of British Raj, was an isolated incident, yet it became a symbol of colonial injustice, remembered in speech, song, and drama. Plate 6.1 shows the title page of a Hindi play written shortly after the event. It depicts ‘Martial Law’ as a policeman above the female figure of ‘Punjab’ praying for help, the law book of colonial promise set aside, while ‘Satyagraha’, representing Gandhi, looks on in despair. For many among the British, the massacre confirmed widely held assumptions about the Indians ought to be governed. Dyer, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_O%27Dwyer for one, was not repentant. The firsing was justified, he later said, for it’s ‘moral effect’ in the Punjab. Indians are like children, when naughty, needed to be severely punished. They were not capable of governing themselves. Opposition to the established order could lead only to anarchy. Although the Government of India forced Dyer to resign his commission, and Montagu staunchly opposed this recourse to violence, Dyer’s reception on his return to England, where he was received like a conquering hero and awarded a purse of Pounds 30,000, undercut the effects of the censure. Throughout the years leading up to independence English opposition to constitutional reform remained always a powerful force that government could not ignore. At its center stood the popular figure of the Conservative leader Winston Churchill, who resigned from the government than support the subsequent 1934 reform measure. ~ Page 169

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