Datta, V N
Jallianwala Bagh: a ground breaking history of the 1919 massacre - Gurgaon Penguin books 2021 - 186 p.
Based on a meticulous exploration of the primary sources and oral testimonies of the survivors and victims of 1919, V.N. Datta crafts a unique and first-hand narrative of the most violent event and its legacy in the history of modern India and provides a complex picture of the city of Amritsar, where he grew up. Jallianwala Bagh is a rigorous account of the causes, nature and impact of the carnage that shook the nation and irreparably wounded its collective consciousness. A pathbreaking study that moves the focus away from the frames of imperialism and nationalism, Datta brings a local and an altogether different scholarly perspective on imperial racial and military violence in the twentieth century. This highly readable work in its revised edition is of tremendous historical and contemporary value...
9780143450337
Political atrocities
India--Amritsar
Dyer, R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry), 1864-1927
954.035 / DAT/J
Jallianwala Bagh: a ground breaking history of the 1919 massacre - Gurgaon Penguin books 2021 - 186 p.
Based on a meticulous exploration of the primary sources and oral testimonies of the survivors and victims of 1919, V.N. Datta crafts a unique and first-hand narrative of the most violent event and its legacy in the history of modern India and provides a complex picture of the city of Amritsar, where he grew up. Jallianwala Bagh is a rigorous account of the causes, nature and impact of the carnage that shook the nation and irreparably wounded its collective consciousness. A pathbreaking study that moves the focus away from the frames of imperialism and nationalism, Datta brings a local and an altogether different scholarly perspective on imperial racial and military violence in the twentieth century. This highly readable work in its revised edition is of tremendous historical and contemporary value...
9780143450337
Political atrocities
India--Amritsar
Dyer, R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry), 1864-1927
954.035 / DAT/J