"One Man's Fight for the Truth about the Jallianwala Massacre" is an excellent summary of the book I review, "The Case That Shook The Empire" by Raghu and Pushpa Palat. This is the hitherto little-known but fascinating story of Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair, (1857-1934) who was a towering personality of his times. He was one of the early stalwarts of the Indian National Congress and served as its President in 1897. Very few Indians held positions of power and high office in the British Raj especially in the India of the 19th and 20th centuries. Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair was one amongst them. He was a Judge of the Madras High Court, and later became a Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council. He resigned in 1919 in protest following the appalling Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of that year.
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