The Butcher of Amritsar
General Reginald Dyer
by Nigel Collett
576 pages· 2006· ISBN 9781852855758
About
On 13 April 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on a crowd gathered to hear political speeches. This is an account of the massacre set in the context of a biography of a man whose attitudes reflected many of the views common in the Raj.
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