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...associations. This paper discusses the Amritsar massacre of 1984 and asks why the Sikhs revolted, why they used violence, and what the outcome of the revolt was.
Discussion
Amritsar is an Indian city of a half-million, located close to the border with Pakistan (Beattie, 2005); the place has an unfortunate history. In 1919, British General Dyer ordered his troops to open fire on an unarmed crowd of 20,000 protestors, who had gathered in Amritsar to protest English colonial rule (Beattie, 2005). Hundreds of protestors were killed and injured, and the disaster "provided the impetus for Mahatma Gandhi's campaign of civil disobedience which led eventually to the end of colonial rule in India" (Beattie, 2005, p. 351). In 1984, another massacre took place when the Indian National Army attacked Sikhs who were taking shelter in the Golden Temple.
Why did the Sikhs revolt? The story of the massacre goes back to the partition of India in 1947. At that time, Pakistan was created as a separate Muslim nation while India...