Question

People were gathered at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar to protest against arrest on Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal on ____________.
1. 13^th April 1919
2. 16^th May 1921
3. 12^th May 1918
4. 15^th April 1920

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : 13^th April 1919

The correct answer is 13th April 1919.

• People were gathered at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar to protest against the arrest of Saifuddin Kitchlew and Satyapal on 13th April 1919.
• The Jallianwala Bagh massacre or the Amritsar Massacre took place when many villagers gathered in the park for the celebration of Baisakhi.
• The gatherers wanted to also peacefully protest the arrest and deportation of two national leaders, Satyapal and Saifuddin Kitchlew.
• On 13 April 1919, Suddenly, a British military officer, General Dyer, entered the park with his troops to open fire on an unarmed crowd who had gathered for the Sikh Vaisakhi festival.
• The attack took place at Jallianwala Bagh, a walled garden with narrow passageways, in the city of Amritsar, Punjab.
• To teach Indians a "lesson" for their "disobedience", Brigadier-General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire on the gathering.

•  After the Incident of Jallianwala Bagh 
  • The Bengali poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore renounced the knighthood that he had received in 1915.
    • Gandhi soon began organizing his first large-scale and sustained nonviolent protest (satyagraha) campaign, the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920–22).
  • The then government of India ordered an investigation of the incident (the Hunter Commission), which in 1920 censured Dyer for his actions and ordered him to resign from the military.