ABSTRACT
The House of Lords’ vote, the tenor of the speeches made, and the support of General Dyer by a large section of the British public ‘shocked’ Indian opinion, says Sir George Barrow, and Bishop Whitehead of Madras (Indian Problems) found that his Indian friends ‘felt so bitterly on the subject that they would not trust themselves to speak about it in the presence of Europeans’. Writing from India to the Daily Telegraph on March 1, 1921, on the ‘Amritsar Incident’, Percival Landon told his readers ‘there is scarcely a hut where the story has not been told’. Dyer’s action, he stated, had unconsciously changed the whole course of events for ‘then it was, in despair of achieving anything against us in the open field, that Gandhi, with his policy of non-violence, ascended to the throne of sedition’.
