The Crack-Up: The Amritsar Massacre & India's Independence Movement, with Gyan Prakash
Carnegie Council Podcasts - Ein Podcast von Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
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Princeton's Gyan Prakash tells the tragic story of the Amritsar Massacre in 1919, in which a British general ordered his soldiers to shoot at thousands of unarmed civilians, and its galvanizing effect on the Indian independence movement. Was this violence an "exceptional" moment in Britain's colonial history? And how did it change Gandhi's thinking in relation to his strategies to resist colonialism?
