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Following the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in 1919, the ranking Sikhs of Amritsar conferred the Saropa (a great honor) on Colonel Reginald Dyer, leader of the British Indian forces that committed the massacre. Why?

by /u/TheJucheisLoose in /r/AskHistorians

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