Rowlatt Committee
The Sedition Committee, usually known as the Rowlatt Committee, was a committee of inquiry appointed in 1917 by the
revolutionary movement
and determining the legal changes necessary to deal with it.
Background
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The purpose of the Rowlatt Committee was to evaluate
1918 flu pandemic that killed nearly 13 million people in the country.[5]
The evidence produced before the committee substantiated the German link, although no conclusive evidence was found for a significant contribution or threat from the Bolsheviks. On the recommendations of the committee, the Rowlatt Act, an extension of the Defence of India Act 1915, was enforced in response to the threat in Punjab and Bengal.[2]
The agitation unleashed by the acts culminated on 13 April 1919, in the
Jallianwallah Bagh, a walled-in courtyard in Amritsar, and ordered his British Indian Army soldiers to fire into an unarmed and unsuspecting crowd of some 6,000 people who had assembled there in defiance of a ban. A total of 1,650 rounds were fired, killing 379 people (as according to an official British commission; Indian estimates ranged as high as 1,500[6][full citation needed
])
Committee members
- Sir Sidney Rowlatt - President
- Sir Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court)
- Sir C. V. Kumaraswami Sastri - Member (judge of Madras High Court)
- Verney Lovett - Member (member of Board of Revenue for United Provinces)
- Prabash Chandra Mitter - Member (member of Bengal Legislative Council)
- (J. D. V. Hodge - Secretary (a member of the Bengal Civil Service))
See also
References
Citations
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- ^ a b Tinker (1968), p. 92
- S2CID 154518042.
- ^ Collett (2007), p. 218
- ^ Chandler & Wright (2001), p. 179
- ^ Ackerman, Peter, and Duvall, Jack, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict p. 74.
Bibliography
- Tinker, Hugh (October 1968), "India in the First World War and after. 1918-19: From War to Peace.", Journal of Contemporary History, 3 (4): 89–107, S2CID 150456443.
- Collett, Nigel (2007), The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer (New ed.), Hambledon & London, ISBN 978-1-85285-575-8.
- Chandler, Malcolm; Wright, John (2001), Modern World History., Heinemann Educational Publishers. 2nd Review edition, ISBN 978-0-435-31141-4
Further reading
- Elam, J. Daniel; Moffat, Chris (2016). "On the Form, Politics and Effects of Writing Revolution". South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. 39 (3): 513–524. .
External links
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