Amritsar 1919

Prof Wagner speaks about his meticulously researched history of the 1919 massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar.

Prof Kim Wagner

Kim Wagner is a Danish-British historian of colonial India and the British Empire at Queen Mary, University of London. He has written a number of books on India, starting with Thuggee: Banditry and the British in early nineteenth-century India in 2007.

Prof Wagner speak about his meticulously researched history of the 1919 massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar. This talk was given at the first UKPHA Virtual Bookclub meeting on 20 April 2020.

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Mallika Kaur

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Haroon Khalid

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Prof Nikki Guninder Kaur Singh

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Kim Wagner

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