Word: dyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...April 1919, Indian Nationalist agitation racked Amritsar, in the Punjab of Northern India. When British officials arrested two Nationalist leaders, British agents were murdered, a bank was plundered, the city hall and a church burned. Europeans were attacked in the streets. On April 13, Brigadier General Reginald E. H. Dyer arrived with 600 troops, sent a drum crier through the streets shouting an edict which forbade meetings of more than three people...
That day in the Jallianwala Bagh, a walled enclosure about the size of Manhattan's Times Square, upwards of 5,000 Indians, who may or may not have heard of General Dyer's edict, assembled peaceably and passed resolutions condemning the rioting. General Dyer chose to see deliberate defiance of his orders in the meeting, decided to make it an example. Posting 50 tough Gurkha troopers with rifles at all the gates of the Bagh, he ordered them to fire into the trapped crowd of men, women and children, and to keep on firing until their ammunition...
...lasted for ten terrible minutes. "The targets," remarked General Dyer, "were good." The official casualty list was 379 killed, 1,200 wounded. From Sir Michael Francis O'Dwyer, fire-eating Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, next day came the message: "Your action correct. Lieutenant Governor approves." Other Britons and most Indians decidedly did not approve the massacre of Amritsar...
Charges were made yesterday by Herbert D. Langhorne of Weston that the recent resignation of Henry V. Hubbard '00, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning, took place under pressure by Joseph F. Hudnut '09, professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Design...
Henry V. Hubbard '97, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Chairman of the Department of Regional Planning, will become Professor Emeritus on September 1, 1941, the University announced Saturday...