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The Amritsar Massacre

Explaining History
Explaining History
Episode • Mar 11, 2015 • 22m
In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, British anxieties over revolutionary tensions in India were high. The action of a lone British general at Amritsar in April 1919 shattered the fragile peace between the colonising British and the colonised Indians, radicalising the independence movement throughout the inter war period.

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