Jallianwala Bagh is a public garden and national memorial just a short walk from the Golden Temple. High walls enclose lawns, pathways, the preserved bullet-scarred wall and the well into which many people fell while trying to escape firing. The central flame-shaped monument, galleries and sound-and-light shows narrate the story of one of the darkest chapters in India’s freedom struggle. Visitors walk quietly through the site, reading plaques and imagining the crowded Baisakhi gathering of 1919.
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History & highlights
On 13 April 1919, thousands of unarmed men, women and children had assembled here during Baisakhi to protest the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of local leaders. Without warning, General Dyer ordered troops to block the narrow entrance and fire on the trapped crowd, killing and injuring hundreds. The massacre shocked world opinion and became a turning point in India’s independence movement. In 1923 a public trust purchased the land to preserve it as a memorial; independent India later developed the garden and monument. Recent renovations have added new galleries and pathways while retaining key original features like the bullet marks.
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