Which event was characterised by Montague as ‘Preventive Murder’ ?

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

3th April, 1919 at Amritsar,Punjab: Rabindranath Tagore  renounce his knighthood as "a symbolic act of protest on 30th May 1919.  In the repudiation letter, dated 30 May 1919 and addressed to the Viceroy, Lord Chelmsford, he wrote "I ... wish to stand, shorn, of all special distinctions, by the side of those of my countrymen who, for their so called insignificance, are liable to suffer degradation not fit for human beings."Shankar Ram Nayar resigned from the membership of the Viceroy’s Council. Michael O'Dwyer, aged 75, was shot dead at a joint meeting of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society in Caxton Hall, London on 13 March 1940, by an Indian revolutionary, Udham Singh, in retaliation for the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar.Edwin Montague, condemned O'Dwyer's severity, and called it as “Preventive Murder”. C.F.Andrews called Jallianwala Massacre as ruthless Murder.

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