Eyewitness at Amritsar: A Visual History of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
About Eyewitness at Amritsar:
"Recounts the bloodiest act of colonial violence in 20th-century British India using the most comprehensive collection of visually compelling material and chilling eyewitness accounts"
The Amritsar Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919 stands as one of the defining moments in the history of the British Empire and the Indian struggle for independence. On that tragic day, thousands of unarmed Indian civilians were fired upon. According to reliable estimates, anywhere between 500 and a thousand people were killed - the youngest eight, the oldest eighty.
While several books have been written on the subject, none make more than a cursory use of the rich body of visual material connected to this iconic episode. Provide a striking chronological narrative of not only the massacre but also its prelude and aftermath, Eyewitness at Amritsar brings together for the first time the most comprehensive and compelling imagery - including photographs, political cartoons, newspaper coverage and propaganda posters as well as secretly recorded images that were smuggled out of India in 1919 - and chilling British and Indian eyewitness accounts to offer a radically different perspective of this defining historical event.
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About Eyewitness at Amritsar:
"Recounts the bloodiest act of colonial violence in 20th-century British India using the most comprehensive collection of visually compelling material and chilling eyewitness accounts"
The Amritsar Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh on 13 April 1919 stands as one of the defining moments in the history of the British Empire and the Indian struggle for independence. On that tragic day, thousands of unarmed Indian civilians were fired upon. According to reliable estimates, anywhere between 500 and a thousand people were killed - the youngest eight, the oldest eighty.
While several books have been written on the subject, none make more than a cursory use of the rich body of visual material connected to this iconic episode. Provide a striking chronological narrative of not only the massacre but also its prelude and aftermath, Eyewitness at Amritsar brings together for the first time the most comprehensive and compelling imagery - including photographs, political cartoons, newspaper coverage and propaganda posters as well as secretly recorded images that were smuggled out of India in 1919 - and chilling British and Indian eyewitness accounts to offer a radically different perspective of this defining historical event.
