About the Book: Case That Shook The Empire : One ManS Fight For The Truth About
The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre
30 April 1924. At the Court of the King's Bench in London, the highest court in
the Empire, an English judge and jury heard the case that would change the
course of India's history: Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor
of the Punjab - and architect of the infamous Jallianwala Bagh massacre - had
filed a defamation case against Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair for having published a
book in which he referred to the atrocities committed by the Raj in Punjab.
The widely-reported trial - one