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SUMMARY:Documenting history: Book Panel Event 
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DESCRIPTION:Documenting history: Book Panel Event (In partnership with Bl
 ackwell’s)\n\nWhy should Jallianwala Bagh be remembered? How can we unde
 rstand what really happened that day in 1919? Hear from authors who have
  researched and written about the massacre that happened 100 years ago\,
  and why it’s important for both Britain and India to commemorate it.\n\
 nCome and meet the authors who have extensively researched and powerfull
 y written about the Amritsar Massacre.\n \nSaurav Dutt is a novelist and
  political analyst\, who has worked tirelessly to lobby the UK governmen
 t to offer a formal apology for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre\, launchin
 g his own tribute on the centenary of the massacre at the House of Lords
 . His book Garden of Bullets: Massacre at Jallianwala Bagh explores the 
 horror and historical importance of the Amritsar Massacre through the in
 sightful lens of historical fiction\, analysing the consequences of the 
 event through conflicting view points\, such as through that of the Raj\
 , nationalist movements\, embittered Sepoys\, as well as exploring the l
 egacy of Udham Singh.\n \nVanessa Holburn is a journalist who has worked
  and travelled extensively in Asia.  The Amritsar Massacre is Vanessa's 
 first book\, and was written to make the topic of British Colonisation a
 ccessible to the many generations that have never covered the topic as p
 art of the national curriculum. The book asks why something that happene
 d 100 years ago remains both controversial and relevant today. It seeks 
 to explain the political backdrop and the personalities involved that co
 nspired to set in motion the chain of events that led to a British Army 
 Officer opening fire on unarmed Indian civilians. It asks who was ultima
 tely responsible for both those deaths and also the significant events t
 hat followed. It is not a book for the historian but for everyone.\n \nB
 ali Rai has written over forty novels for teenagers and children. Born i
 n Leicester\, his writing is inspired by his working-class\, multicultur
 al background. His book is set in Amritsar 1919\, in the days leading up
  to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. It also takes in WW1 in 1915\, Bright
 on later that same year\, and Udham Singh's time in prison just before h
 is execution. Told as five intersecting stories\, it was his first histo
 rical novel.\n\nBook via eventbrite
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LOCATION:Manchester Museum\, Oxford Road\, Manchester\, Phone: 0161-27526
 48\, Email: museum@manchester.ac.uk
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