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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 Gandhis 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 became
almost completely Hindu (Sikhs: fighting for justice). The Sikhs, who had fought for liberation, decided not to press the Indian government for a separate Sikh state, but instead settled in
the Punjab region, which includes Amritsar (Sikhs, fighting for justice). Although the Punjab was barren, the Sikhs transformed it into a prosperous agricultural area (Sikhs, fighting for justice). "Amidst this
newfound prosperity, large numbers of Sikhs started to shed some of the trappings of their faith. This propensity rekindled an age-old fear in the Sikh community-that of being absorbed into
the Hindu fold" (Golden Temple massacre in India 1984, 2000). This fear appears to be the main component of the revolt of the Sikhs in the Punjab. The political situation
became increasingly unstable and the Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, tried to use a Sikh revivalist preacher, Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, to undermine an opposition party, the Akali Dal (Golden
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