Jallianwala Bagh 1919 book review (Photograph: Zeutschel Omniscan 11/Nehru Memorial Museum)
\n\nThe Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 remains one of the bloodiest and most haunting chapters of India’s freedom struggle. Today more than a century later, the horror of that day still feels difficult to comprehend. An enclosed wide space, an unarmed gathering, armed soldiers blocking the only entry/exit and hundreds of people being shot at without any way to escape. The scale of the brutality has often invited comparisons with some of the darkest episodes of human history.
\n\nToday, Jallianwala Bagh stands as a memorial in Amritsar, a place where history and memory come together. Kishwar Desai, founder of the Partition Museum, brings that same painstaking attention to historical memory to her book Jallianwala Bagh, 1919: The Real Story. And perhaps that is what makes the book particularly compelling. It is not simply a retelling of a massacre we think we already know. It is an attempt to go back to the records, question what has been accepted as fact and reconstruct what happened as closely as the evidence allows.
\n\nDesai takes the reader to the India that existed before April 13, 1919… the political unrest, the anger against…
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