Political Science · Political Institutions in India
UGC NET Jan 2026 Political Science
Which British Prime Minister stated about Jallianwala Bagh massacre that 'it was Unutterably Monstrous'?
AWinston Churchill ✓ Correct
BHarold Macmillan
CSir Anthony Eden
DWilliam Ewart Gladstone
Correct answer: (A) Winston Churchill — The British figure who described the Jallianwala Bagh massacre as unutterably monstrous was Winston Churchill, which is option (1).
Explanation
★The British figure who described the Jallianwala Bagh massacre as unutterably monstrous was Winston Churchill, which is option (1).
★The Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place on 13 April 1919 at Amritsar, when troops under Brigadier General Reginald Dyer fired on an unarmed crowd.
★The crowd had gathered in an enclosed garden on the day of Baisakhi, and hundreds were killed and many more wounded.
★The firing continued until the ammunition was nearly exhausted, and the only narrow exit had been blocked.
★Churchill made his famous remark during a debate in the House of Commons on 8 July 1920.
★At that time Churchill was serving as the Secretary of State for War, and he became Prime Minister of Britain only in 1940.
★He sharply criticised the conduct of General Dyer and called the event an episode that appeared to him to be unutterably monstrous.
★The massacre caused outrage across India and was a turning point that pushed many moderates towards the national movement.
★Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood in protest against the massacre.
★The Hunter Commission was appointed to inquire into the events, and it censured Dyer, who was relieved of his command.
★The option Harold Macmillan is wrong, since he was a later British Prime Minister of the 1950s and 1960s, unconnected to this remark.
★The option Sir Anthony Eden is wrong, since he was Prime Minister in the 1950s, best known for the Suez crisis.
★The option William Ewart Gladstone is wrong, since he was a nineteenth century Prime Minister who had died in 1898, well before 1919.
★The massacre fed directly into the Non Cooperation Movement that Gandhi launched in 1920.
★For NET, attach the unutterably monstrous remark to Winston Churchill in 1920, against the backdrop of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919 and the Hunter Commission.
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