Jallianwala Bagh- Amritsar

1. JALLIANWALA
BAGH

2. ABOUT
• Jallianwala Bagh is a public garden located in Amritsar, Punjab, established in
1951 by the Government of India.
• Inside the garden, a memorial was built in 1951. This was in remembrance of
the innocent people who died in the 1919 massacre.
• Jallianwala Bagh is of 6 to 7 acres (2.8 ha), walled on all sides, with five
entrances.
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3. • Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 1919
• took place on 13 April 1919 when troops of
the British Indian army under the command
of Acting Brig-Gen Reginald Dyer fired rifles
into a crowd of Indians, who had gathered in
Jallianwala Bagh , Amritsar, Punjab. The
civilians had assembled for a peaceful protest
to condemn the arrest and deportation of
two national leaders, Satya Pal and Saifuddin
Kitchlew.
• Sacrifice
• The Jallianwala Bagh is a symbol of the
freedom struggle.
• A monument to symbolize the sacrifices of
innocent Indians killed in the massacre was
built and was open to public in 1961, after an
inauguration by the then President of India
Dr. Rajendra Prasad, exactly 42 years after
the date of the tragedy.
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KNOWN FOR

4. JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE
• The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre also goes by
the name Amritsar Massacre.
• The incident took place on April 13, 1919. It
was a Sunday.
• The day on which the incident took place was
‘Baisakhi’, Punjab’s one of the largest festivals.
• The precursor to the Massacre was the
Rowlatt Act. This act was passed in February
1919.
• The Rowlatt Act gave the British Government
the authority to arrest anyone on grounds of
mere suspicion.
• The Rowlatt Act was basically designed for
controlling activities of Indian Revolutionaries.
• On April 10, 1919, two famous leaders, Dr.
Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal were arrested on the
basis of Rowlatt Act.
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• Two days later on 12th of April, 1919, General
Dyer took command of troops. He issued a
proclamation banning all public gatherings.
• Because people had no idea about the
proclamation, a public gathering was called for.
The venue of Jallianwala Bagh. The date was
13th The time for the gathering was 4:30 PM.
• Nearly 1,650 rounds were fired. Firing stopped
when they ran out of ammunitions.
• Williams DeeMeddy indicated that 1,526 people
were killed. According to Indian National
Congress, over 1500 people were killed that
evening.
• The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre led Rabindranath
Tagore to renounce his Knighthood. Mahatma
Gandhi returned Kaisar-i-Hind medal that he
received because of his work during Boer War.
• The Indian National Congress built a memorial
for the innocent souls who departed on the
unfortunate day and the memorial was
inaugurated by Rajendra Prasad in 1961.

5. LESSER KNOWN FACTS ON
JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE
• Prior to the incident at Jallianwala Bagh, an English
missionary named Marcella was attacked and left
for dead in the streets by an angry mob protesting
against the arrests of two popular leaders of the
Indian Independence Movement, Satya Pal and
Saifuddin Kitchlew.
• Jallianwala Bagh was a tricky place. Except for the
main entrance to the open place, the area was
surrounded by building and walls on all sides.
• The firings stopped only when the soldiers ran out
of ammunition.
• Colonel Reginald Dyer was shot dead on 13 March,
1940, by a man named Udham Singh, a member
of the revolutionist Ghadar party who was on a
mission of revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh
Massacre.
• The last known survivor of the Jallianwala Bagh
Massacre, Shingara Singh, died in Amritsar on
June 29, 2009, at the age of 113.
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