ABSTRACT
Within six months of the Armistice the Amritsar riots were evidence of the bitterness of Indian disappointment over that elusive Dominion status which had been pro mised, not in so many words of course, when India aligned herself beside Great Britain at the beginning of the Great War. Not that the rioters of Amritsar were thinking about independence, but they were in the mood to respond to the mood of those who were. The failure of the monsoon in 1918 had caused a great scarcity of food and as a natural result widespread industrial unrest among Indian labour.
