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The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer

by Nigel Collett · 2006

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Nigel Collett provides an account of the most controversial episode in the history of British India (and of the British Empire) in the 20th century, the massacre of over 400 Indians by General Reginald Dyer in the Jallianwala Bagh at Amritsar on 13 April 1919, set in the context of a biography of Dyer.

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