SAST 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Indian Rebellion Of 1857, Mesopotamian Campaign
7 Feb 2019
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Indian rulers were behaving with british king like they would to a mughal emperor. Before this, main centre for british power was calcutta. Indian army in belgium, germany, east africa, mesopotamian campaign, battle of. 1100 1500 wounded, 379 1000 killed. How many people actually died is still debated. In the british mind, they had the sepoy revolt. This played heavily on british thinking about what goes on inside. The general who was in charge of the area around amritsar, he thought that there was an insurrection building in this area. General ordered that there were to be no meetings (large group of people meeting), so that revolution (as he thought) couldn"t be formed. He saw 1000s of people coming together for a religious holiday, there were lots of families there. General thought this was a breaking of his rule of having no meetings, so he ordered his troops to go and open fire on the crowd.
