10 minutes

Photo of Dyer bullet holes by anita anand.

The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre of 1919 was the watershed event of India’s independence. In the northern Indian city of Amritsar, British Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer [1864-1927] ordered his troops to open fire on a public crowd for ten minutes resulting in perhaps more than 1500 casualties.

An earlier reference to Gandhi here.