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The Butcher of Amritsar : General Reginald Dyer

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.
Print Book, English, 2007
Hambledon Continuum, London, 2007
Biographies
575 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9781852855758, 1852855754
144809409
Illustrations; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; I. A Solder's Life; 1 Simla; 2 Cork and Sandhurst; 3 Ireland and Burma; 4 The Black Mountain; 5 The Relief of Chitral; 6 Staff College and the Mahsud; 7 Chakrata and Chungla Gully; 8 The Zakka Khel; 9 Hong Kong; 10 The First World War; 11 Sistan. 12 The Sarhadd; 13 Khwash; II. The Amritsar Massacre; 14 Abbottabad and Jullundur; 15 Amritsar; 16 The Jallianwala Bagh; 17 The Crawling Order; 18 Thal; 19 Dlahousie and Jamrud; 20 The Hunter Committee; 21 The Army Council; 22 Parliament; 23 Retirement; 24 Epilogue; Appendix; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index.