The Jallianwala Bagh massacre is a stigmatized event in Indian history. When a crowd had gathered peacefully at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, the British government fired on it. In which many innocent and unarmed people were killed. Many people had jumped into a well in the same garden to avoid the bullets of the British. Due to this also many people were killed during this infamous incident. This incident is known in Indian history as 'Jallianwala Bagh Massacre'.
On April 9, 1919, two nationalist leaders Saifuddin Kitchlew and Dr. Satyapal were arrested by the British government when people were protesting against the Rowlatt Act. As a result, a large section of Indians were agitated.
Then the very next day on April 10, 1919, people were protesting against firing on Satyagrahis and forcibly sending nationalist leaders out of Punjab. Ultimately this protest turned violent and during this violence some Britishers were also killed.
On the day of Baisakhi, on 13 April 1919, a meeting was held at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, in which some leaders were going to give speeches. There was a curfew in the city, yet there were hundreds of people in it who had come to see the fair and visit the city with their families on the occasion of Baisakhi and reached there after hearing the news of the meeting. When the leader was giving a speech standing on a pile of gravel lying in the garden, then Brigadier General Reginald Dyer reached there with 90 British soldiers. They all had loaded rifles in their hands. When the leaders saw the soldiers, they asked the people present there to sit quietly.
The soldiers surrounded the garden and started firing on unarmed people without any warning. A total of 1650 rounds of bullets were fired in 10 minutes. Jallianwala Bagh at that time was an empty ground lying behind the houses. There was only one narrow way to get in or out and there were houses all around. There was no way to escape. Some people jumped into the only well in the field to save their lives, but in no time that well was also filled with dead bodies. Jallianwala Bagh was once the property of a man named Jalali.
