British troops under General Dyer fire without warning on an unarmed crowd gathered in Amritsar's Jallianwala Bagh, beside the Golden Temple, killing hundreds by the official count and more by Indian reckoning; the massacre turns Punjab opinion, Sikh opinion above all, decisively against the Raj.
Tagged: Persecution Sahajdhari Sikh The Khalsa Panth
The Event
- Date
- 1919 (exact)
- Era
- Reform and Colonial; Standard periodization of Sikh history
- Location
- Amritsar; today Punjab, India
- Traditions
- Sikhism
- Streams
- The Khalsa Panth, Sahajdhari
- Key figures
- General Reginald Dyer
Primary Sources
- The Hunter Commission report (1920)
Secondary Sources
- Khushwant Singh, A History of the Sikhs, vol. 1 (Oxford, 2nd ed. 2004)
- Grewal, The Sikhs of the Punjab (Cambridge, 1990)
Provenance: HIST-0529; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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