They would have laughed
Ferdinand Mount: The Massacre at Amritsar, 4 April 2019
Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre
by Kim A. Wagner.
Yale, 325 pp., £20, February 2019,978 0 300 20035 5 Show More
by Kim A. Wagner.
Yale, 325 pp., £20, February 2019,
“... onto the dresses of lady spectators had been a regular feature of British retribution, from Hector Munro in Bengal in 1764 to Deputy Commissioner Cowan in the Punjab, who executed fifty prisoners by blowing them from guns after the Kuka outbreak in 1872. Sir Robert Davies, O’Dwyer’s predecessor as lieutenant governor of Punjab, defended Cowan ... ”