Jallianwala Bagh | Amandeep Madra

Today I have the pleasure to talk to Amandeep Singh Madra, the co-author of ‘Eyewitness at Amritsar’. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ ★ Buy this podcast a coffee ★ If you want to know more about our guest then I recommend you visit  episode 15. Coming back to today’s episode, we will be focusing on  Jallianwala Bagh. Now those of you listening have probably seen the recent ‘renovations’,  in my opinion, it’s an absolute indecorous f*ckery of stupidity and  disrespect of history. However, the ‘renovations’ and disrespect itself  won’t be the topic today - instead we’ll be focusing on the Jallianwala  Bagh massacre and the events both preceding and proceeding it. As always here’s a time stamped breakdown of the conversation: 00:00 - Introduction 01:13 - Where does Jallianwala Bagh get its name from? 03:03 - What was the purpose of Jallianwala Bagh? 06:01 - Visiting Jallianwala Bagh 06:25 - End of WWI, socio-economic influences on Panjab 13:32 - Rowlatt Acts 15:01 - Who are Colonel Reginald Edward Harry Dyer and Sir Michael O’Dwyer? 25:22 - Kitchelew, Sataypal & April 10th, 1919 35:23 - Marcella Sherwood 40:54 - The plan to bomb Amritsar 46:09 - Which regiments were involved in the massacre & did any of the soldiers refuse to shoot? 51:35 - Finding out who belonged to these regiments   54:05 - Who do we know about the crowd that was there that day? 01:01:45 - The myth of the well 01:04:48 - How far are the soldiers from the crowd when they shoot? 01:15:31 - Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh and General Dyer’s siropa 01:25:29 - How is the British Raj about to mobilise a vast volunteer force for WW2 considering the events of Jallianwala Bagh? 01:32:09 - What happens to Dyer?