Jallianwala Bagh is a battleground in the Indian city of Jallianwala Bagh.
A park (bagh) in the heart of Amritsar, northern India,
where thousands of people were murdered or injured in 1919.
Despite a tight prohibition on public gatherings enacted the
day before, a throng had assembled in this park.
General Dyer, the British commander in charge, mistook the
throng for willful rejection of the law and ordered his soldiers to fire on it.
This incident was significant in the struggle for Indian
independence (which was finally achieved on August 15, 1947), because it
undercut British claims that their presence was necessary to keep the country
out of chaos, and it removed any moral authority by which the British could
justify their rule, in the minds of many Indian leaders.
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