Jallianwala Bagh ( , , ) is a public garden in Amritsar , and houses a memorial of national importance , established in 1951 by the Government of India , to commemorate the massacre of peaceful celebrants including unarmed women and children by British occupying forces , on the occasion of the Punjabi New Year ( Baisakhi ) on 13 April 1919 in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre . Colonial British Raj sources identified 379 fatalities and estimated about 1100 wounded . Civil Surgeon Dr. Smith indicated that there were 1,526 casualties . The true figures of fatalities are unknown , but are very likely to be many times higher than the official figure of 379
Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Jallianwala Bagh