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It's covered in school history classes, sufficiently anti-colonially for a certain slice of conservative talking heads to decry Britain 'talking down its glorio
by pmyteh 9y ago
It's covered in school history classes, sufficiently anti-colonially for a certain slice of conservative talking heads to decry Britain 'talking down its glorious past'.
My class covered the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre in some depth at age 15; a lovely example of late Empire brutality where one of our army officers ordered machine guns turned on a non-violent crowd who were demonstrating in breach of government order.
So it's not covered in any depth, but the empire certainly isn't celebrated uncritically in school or in other official contexts.
- newen 9y agoActually they weren't even demonstrating. It was a gathering of people from inside and outside Amritsar, who came there for a festival. The order against gatherings of more than 4 people weren't distributed well, and so most of those people weren't aware of the order. Dyer then went and ordered the massacre.