TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wagner,Kim A.
TI  - Amritsar, 1919: an empire of fear & the making of a massacre 
SN  - 9780300245462
AV  - DS480 .A475 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Amritsar Massacre, Amritsar, India, 1919
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Prologue shadows of the mutiny --; Pool of nectar --; Rowlatt and Satyagraha --; Party of Anarchy --; Like Wildfire --; Tokens of violence --; All force necessary --; A state of rebellion --; Baisakhi --; Massacre --; Forces of terror --; Testimony of blood --; A piece of inhumanity --; Aftershocks --; Conclussion An empire of fear --; Epilogue Jallianwala Bagh; 2; b
N2  - The Amritsar Massacre of 1919 was a seminal moment in the history of the British Empire, yet it remains poorly understood. In this dramatic account, Kim A. Wagner details the perspectives of ordinary people and argues that General Dyer's order to open fire at Jallianwalla Bagh was an act of fear. Situating the massacre within the "deep" context of British colonial mentality and the local dynamics of Indian nationalism, Wagner provides a genuinely nuanced approach to the bloody history of the British Empire
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