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Four men in profile, arms stretched out with fists linked, under three white doves on a red ground, with the words “75th Anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh Martyrdom” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
Jallianwala Bagh, 13 April 1919
India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 13 April 1994, seventy-five years to the day. On Baisakhi in 1919, a large crowd gathered at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, amid anger at the Rowlatt Act and the arrest of nationalist leaders. Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer blocked the narrow way out and ordered his troops to fire into the unarmed crowd. India Post’s folder gives an estimate of 379 dead and about 1,200 wounded and says the precise numbers will never be known; other estimates of the dead run to 1,500 or more. The massacre hardened the resolve of the freedom movement.
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