आगमे विश्वासटिप्पन्यः

A park (bagh) in the center of the
northern Indian city of Amritsar at
which several thousand people were
killed or wounded in 1919. A crowd had
gathered at this park despite a strict
ban on public meetings established the
day before. The British officer in
charge, General Dyer, interpreted the
gathering as willful defiance of the law
and commanded his men to fire on the
crowd. This incident was highly significant in the struggle for Indian independence (finally achieved on August 15,
1947), for it undercut British claims
that their presence was necessary to
keep the country from chaos and, in
the minds of many Indian leaders,
removed any moral authority by which
the British could justify their rule.