TY - BOOK AU - Collett, Nigel TI - The Butcher Of Amritsar : General Reginald Dyer SN - 9798129107410 U1 - 908.821092 COL PY - 2007/// CY - London PB - Hambledon continuum KW - Amritsar massacre, amritsar, india, 1919 N2 - On 13 April 1919, General Reginald Dyer marched a squad of Indian soldiers into the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, and opened fire without warning on a crowd gathered to hear political speeches. This is an account of the massacre set in the context of a biography of a man whose attitudes reflected many of the views common in the Raj ER -