13th April is Baisakhi also Jallian wala bagh holocaust.
An year short of a century, Jallian wala bagh massacre is a writing on the wall. The Date: 13th April 1919. The event: Gandhi's first civil disobedience campaign in North India. Which culminated in the holocaust of Jallianwala bagh at Amritsar. The action: A detachment of Gurkhas & Baluchs arrived in two armoured cars under the command of Genral Dyer. They fired a total 1,605 rounds into a densely packed crowd of men, women and children assembled for a political meeting. Official estimates placed the number of killed at 379 & the number of wounded around 1,200. It was later learnt that Dyer's troops, according to his own account fired the rounds until the ammunition was exhausted. Emotionally Jallianwala Bagh marks a more durable watershed in the relationship between Britain and India than any of Gandhi's non-cooperation campaigns. The bubble of imperialism was pricked. By the way imperialism is, when it cannot rule by a system of s