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In 1919 a British Bregadier General Reginald Dyer ordered his troops to fire on a crowd of unarmed indian protestors including women and children killing atleast 400 people. Rudyard Kipling the Author of Jungle Book and Kim defended Dyer's actions stating "he did his duty as he saw it"
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Rudyard Kipling helped to raise over 26,000 Pounds for General Reginald Dyer, the guy responsible for death of hundreds in 1919 massacre in Colonial India
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The man who established the brewery that produces the iconic Old Monk Rum in India,Edward Abraham Dyer, was the father of General Dyer who was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
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In 1919, general Dyer ordered to kill crowd of 10,000 unarmed men, women and children gathered to defy ban on public meetings. Later House of Lords praised Dyer and gave him a sword inscribed with the motto “Saviour of the Punjab.” An estimated 379 people were killed.
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Rudyard Kipling, raised 26000 pounds sterling for a benefit fund, for General Dyer ( perpetrator of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre ), claiming he was the "man who saved India"
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[TIL]Morning Post, a conservative British newspaper, raised a hefty sum of "26,000 pounds" for the benefit of General Reginald Dyer, the man behind the dreadful Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
