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Dispelling massacre myths

People pay tribute at the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrs’ Memorial to mark the attack’s centenary.

By: Keerthi Mohan

by AMIT ROY THE “best book I have ever read on the Empire”, was how journalist Sathnam Sanghera described Kim Wagner’s book, Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear & The Making of a Massacre, when they both appeared at the National Army Museum last Saturday (13) on the centenary of Jallianwala Bagh to discuss the atrocity. Wagner, who teaches the history of colonial India and the British Empire at Queen Mary College, University of London, said it was important to dispel some of the many myths about the massacre. Also appearing on the panel, which was chaired by Sanghera, were…

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