University of Hawai'i Press
Imperial Crime and Punishment
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Jallianwala Bagh has resonated in the memory of Indians for over a half a century. By official estimate, 379 Indians attending an unlawfully convened but peaceful political rally were killed by the orders of Brig. Gen. Reginald E. Dyer: Indian contemporaries alleged that there were 1,000 to 1,500 deaths, and a census counted over 500 victims. A. J. P. Taylor calls the massacre "the worst bloodshed since the Mutiny, and the decisive moment when Indians were alienated from British rule." No event in modern British history occurring in the United Kingdom or its white colonies has compared to it in loss of lives as a consequence of firing against civilians.
This work places the massacre in the context of imperial history and examines it as a paradigm of confrontation between two classes, divided in this case by race, nation, and religion as well as by power. The analysis of this crime is uniquely accessible because of the accounts produced by the Government of India's Hunter Committee and the Indian National Congress subcommittee established to investigate the Punjab disorders.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Primary Source Notation
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1. Crime, Punishment, and Class Solidarity
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2. The Massacres in Amritsar and Punjab Terror of 1919
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3. Prologue to Collective Violence in India, 1858-1919
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4. The Roots of the "Himalayan Miscalculation" during the Anti-Rowlatt Campaign of 1919
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5. Assessing the Hypothesis
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6. The Public Accounting
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7. The Reasoning Why: Analysis of the Parliamentary Debates
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8. Testing the Hypothesis through Content Analysis
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9. The Roots and Resonance of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
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Appendix A: Coding the Parliamentary Debates
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Appendix B: The Circle of Trust
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Appendix C: The Jamaica Debate
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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About the Author
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