Today I have the pleasure to talk to Amandeep Singh Madra, the co-author of ‘Eyewitness at Amritsar’.
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If you want to know more about our guest then I recommend you visit episode 15. Coming back to today’s episode, we will be focusing on Jallianwala Bagh.
Now those of you listening have probably seen the recent ‘renovations’, in my opinion, it’s an absolute indecorous f*ckery of stupidity and disrespect of history. However, the ‘renovations’ and disrespect itself won’t be the topic today - instead we’ll be focusing on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the events both preceding and proceeding it.
As always here’s a time stamped breakdown of the conversation:
00:00 - Introduction
01:13 - Where does Jallianwala Bagh get its name from?
03:03 - What was the purpose of Jallianwala Bagh?
06:01 - Visiting Jallianwala Bagh
06:25 - End of WWI, socio-economic influences on Panjab
13:32 - Rowlatt Acts
15:01 - Who are Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer and Sir Michael O’Dwyer?
25:22 - Kitchelew, Sataypal & April 10th, 1919
35:23 - Marcella Sherwood
40:54 - The plan to bomb Amritsar
46:09 - Which regiments were involved in the massacre & did any of the soldiers refuse to shoot?
51:35 - Finding out who belonged to these regiments
54:05 - Who do we know about the crowd that was there that day?
01:01:45 - The myth of the well
01:04:48 - How far are the soldiers from the crowd when they shoot?
01:15:31 - Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh and General Dyer’s siropa
01:25:29 - How is the British Raj about to mobilise a vast volunteer force for WW2 considering the events of Jallianwala Bagh?
01:32:09 - What happens to Dyer?
