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Indian History: British Raj in India

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Who was the General who had given orders for Jalianwala Bagh Massacre ?

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Reginald EH Dyer
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Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered British troops to fire on a crowd of unarmed Indian civilians at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar on April 13, 1919. This tragic event resulted in hundreds of deaths and became a major turning point in the Indian nationalist movement.

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