Question

Answer the following question briefly

In the context of the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy, answer the following: 
How did the entire nation and Gandhiji react to the events in Amritsar?

Answer 1

Martial law was proclaimed in Punjab. During this period, people were humiliated and tortured. The brutality of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and the humiliation and inhuman treatment of the Indians that followed shocked the entire nation. Gandhiji was horrified. He lost all faith in the goodness of the British government and declared that it would be a ‘sin’ to cooperate with the ‘Satanic’ government.