Jallianwala Bagh (
Hindi: जलियांवाला बाग) is a public garden in
Amritsar in the
Punjab state of
India, and houses a memorial of national importance, established in 1951 by the Government of India, to commemorate the massacre of peaceful celebrators including unarmed women and children by British occupying forces, on the occasion of the Punjabi New Year on April 13, 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 likely to be many times higher than the official figure of 379.