What led up to amritsar massacre?
Bummers . . . Prelude to the massacre The events that followed the passage of the Rowlatt Act in 1919 were also influenced by the events linked to the Ghadar conspiracy. At the time, British Indian Army troops were returning from the battlefields of Europe and Mesopotamia to an economic depression in India. [15][16] The attempts at mutiny in 1915 and the Lahore conspiracy trials were still in public attention. News of young Mohajirs who fought on behalf of the Turkish Caliphate and later fought in the ranks of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War was also beginning to reach India. The Russian Revolution had also cast its long shadow into India.[17] It was at this time that Mahatma Gandhi, until then relatively unknown on the Indian political scene, began emerging as a mass leader. Ominously, in 1919, the third Anglo-Afghan war began in the wake of Amir Habibullah Khan’s assassination and institution of Amanullah Khan in a system blatantly influenced by the Kabul mission. In additi
