Word: amritsar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fashionable Simla, mountain resort of Sahibs, got this news, got also news of riots at Amritsar, scene of hideous British butcherings in 1919. Something more serious than anti-moviedom seemed to portend
...drop their ways and methods, but in the victory which they seem to be winning they are creating situations which will make for a more terrible war. If every time an incident, great or small, arises, the powerful nations resort to violence, there can be no peace. Nicaragua, Haiti, Amritsar, Rubr, Corfu, Egypt all involved a resort, to force upon the part of the great and powerful nations against the unarmed and helpless. In all of these instances the aggressor nation was strong enough and powerful enough to have invoked conciliation, adjustment, and arbitration, and thus to have set examples...
After the War came the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms?dyarchy.? The Amritsar affair in which hundreds of Indians were wantonly butchered caused Gandhi to begin his noncooperation movement. For a time, Das was heart and soul with Gandhi, and his fervor caused his incarceration for a brief spell at Alipore. Noncoöperation was soon proved to be leading nowhere. Of the 46 million Bengalese, not 10% voluntarily supported the movement; while an insignificant but dangerous section of the population thought non-coöperation the mildest and most absurd of protests. So long as the masses could bathe uninterruptedly...
...Michael O'Dwyer was Governor of the Punjab during the Amritsar riots...
...last decade Professor Geddes has spent in India and Palestine. He surveyed 50 different cities of India, from Bombay to Calcutta and from Amritsar to Madura, producing comprehensive reports and plans for every department of urban life from sewage and traffic regulation to education. He is an able architect and engineer and has drawn plans for Tagore's new schools in Bengal, for a zoo at Lucknow and a university at Hyderabad. At Bombay he has collected a city-planning exhibition occupying a hall 200 feet long. In Palestine he cooperated with the Zionists in survey work, including plans...