UPSC CAPF AC 2019 Paper

The Jallianwala Bagh massacre, also known as the Amritsar massacre, took place on 13 April, 1919 when Acting Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered troops of the British Indian Army to fire their rifles into a crowd of unarmed civilians in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab, killing at least 400, including 41 children, one only six weeks old. Dyer, without warning the crowd to disperse, blocked the main exits. He stated later that this act ‘‘was not to disperse the meeting but to punish the Indians for disobedience.’’