The Jallianwala Bagh massacre was a seminal event in the British rule of India. On 13 April 1919, a group of non-violent protesters, along with Baishakhi pilgrims, had gathered in the Jallianwala Bagh garden in Amritsar, Punjab. On the orders of Brigadier-General Reginald E.H. Dyer, the army fired on the crowd for ten minutes, directing their bullets largely towards the few open gates through which people were trying to run out.The dead numbered between 370 and 1000. The brutality stunned the entire nation, resulting in a wrenching loss of faith in Britain’s good intentions.