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Public Order and Popular Protest in Colonial India: Remembering Jallianwala Bagh Massacre after a Century

08 July 2020, Version 2
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Abstract

This working paper reconstructs the unfolding of events in India in March-April 1919 that led to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. It evaluates the events and administrative and military response from a legal history perspective. It also argues that Jallianwala Bagh massacre was not a unique event in itself but was the culmination of colonial rage against a broader anti-colonial mobilisation.

Keywords

Public order
protest
violence
Martial law
colonialism
India
Punjab
Jallianwala Bagh

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Version History

Jul 08, 2020 Version 2

Version Notes

As advised by the Cambridge Engage editorial team, the author has added name and other affiliation details to the working-paper and corrected a few typos in the new version.

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DOI

10.33774/coe-2020-b55vb-v2
D O I: 10.33774/coe-2020-b55vb-v2 [opens in a new tab]

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