Question

Underline the line in the poem sung after the Jallianwala massacre, which according to you, reflects India’s essential unity.

Answer 1

Hint: On 13 April 1919 The Jallianwala Bagh(also known as the Amritsar massacre) massacre took place. Killing a minimum of 379 people and injuring over 1,200 people, Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered troops of British Indian Army to fire their rifles into a crowd of unarmed Indian civilians in Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar, Punjab.

Complete answer:
”Muslims and Hindus Blood flows together today.” This line in the poem reflects India’s essential unity sung after the Jallianwala massacre. Another name of the Jallianwala massacre is the Amritsar massacre.

This massacre had taken place on 13 April 1919. In this massacre,379 people died and 1200 other people got injured. In this incident, the British had fired troops in an open space known as the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of India on an outsized crowd of unarmed Indians and they killed several hundred people and wounded many hundreds more.

This has become a very turning point in India’s modern history and it left a scar on the relationship between Indians and Britishers. Due to this incident, Mahatma Gandhi had made a commitment to independence from Britain, and this caused Indian nationalism. This incident had spread anger among Indians, notably in the Punjab region.

A one-day general strike was done by Gandhi in early April throughout the country. Many Indian leaders had been arrested and banished from that city which caused violent protests on April 10, in which soldiers fired upon civilians, buildings were looted and burned, and angry mobs killed several foreign nationals and severely beat a Christian missionary in Amritsar.

There was a ban on public gatherings and these measures were taken by Brig. Gen. Reginald Edward Harry Dyer. A crowd of at least 10,000 men, women, and children gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh on the afternoon of April 13 and this Bagh had only one exit and was completely enclosed by walls. There was a large number of people who were disobeying the ban on public meetings and many had come to the city from the surrounding region to celebrate Baisakhi, a spring festival.

Brig. Gen. Reginald Edward Harry Dyer and his soldiers arrived there and closed the exit and started firing on them. Dyer was ordered to resign from the military after the government of India ordered an investigation of the incident. Dyer’s sympathizers raised funds and presented them to him. The Jallianwala Bagh is now a national monument in Amritsar.

Note: The Hunter Commission report published the subsequent year by the govt of India criticised both Dyer personally and also the govt of the Punjab for failing to compile an in depth casualty count, and quoted a figure offered by the Sewa Samiti (a Social Services Society) of 379 identified dead, and approximately 1,200 wounded, of whom 192 were seriously injured.