The Butcher of Amritsar by Nigel Collett
On April 13 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh, a large enclosed public space in the holy city of Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on a crowd gathered to hear political speeches, leaving over 200 dead. To some Dyer was the saviour of India, responding decisively to threatened insurrection, but to many in India, including Ganhdi and Nehru, his action proved the moral bankruptcy of the British Empire. The bitter debate that followed the shootings, the worst atrocity perpetrated by the British in the twentieth century, almost brought down the Liberal Government and was a decisive turning point in India's march to independence. The Butcher of Amritsar is a definitive account of the massacre set in the context of a biography of Reginald Dyer, a man whose attitudes reflected many of the views common in the Raj.
A superb biography The Mail on Sunday, 1 May 2005 Precise and comprehensive Sunday Times, 24 April 2005 This excellent new biography BBC History, May 2005 Thoroughly researched, welll-written and insightful account The Spectator 16 April 2005 An engrossing human story that casts a calm and steady light o the history if British imperialism, on the Raj, and on Dyer The literary Review Thorough reconstruction of the events and a convincing study of their perpetrator Independant 1 May 2005
Lieutenant Colonel Nigel Collett earned his MA for the University of Buckingham and completed it with distinction in September 2002. He is the author of A Grammar, Phrase Book and Vocabulary of Baluchi and A Course in Baluchi. In 1994 he co-authored A Nepali-English-Nepali Dictionary.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852854577 |
| ISBN 10 | 185285457X |
| Title | The Butcher of Amritsar |
| Author | Nigel Collett |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2005-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
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