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  1. Massacre, also called Jallianwallah Bagh 
  2. massacre Punjab 1919, when British troops 
  3. under General Edward Dyer (1864- 1927) 
  4. opened fire without warning on a crowd of
  5. some 10,000, assembled to protest against the
  6. arrest of two Indian National Congress
  7. leaders (see Congress Party). Dyer was
  8. subsequently censured and resigned his
  9. commission, but gained popular support in the
  10. UK for his action, both by mention in the
  11. House of Lords and by private subscriptions
  12. totalling 926,000. The favourable treatment
  13. Dyer received spurred Mahatma Gandhi to a
  14. policy of active noncooperation with the
  15. British.
  16.