wrote that such cruelty was nbsp Without parallel in the history of civilised governments nbsp This line shows how shocking the act was A Crime without Moral or Political Reason General Dyer s action had no excuse The people were harmless They did nothing wrong The British Government used power to crush innocent Indians Tagore said that such actions had nbsp No political expediency far less moral justification nbsp This means cruelty cannot be defended in the name of law and order It was a crime against humanity It showed the heartless side of the British Raj Pain of Punjab Spread across India The British tried to hide the truth But news of the killings slowly came out even though the British tried to keep everyone silent People everywhere in India felt sorrow and anger Punjab became the symbol of national pain The massacre revealed the helplessness of Indians as British subjects Rabindranath Tagore felt this pain deeply Later he rejected his Knighthood in protest His act showed how strongly India felt the wound of Jallianwala Bagh The Jallianwala Bagh massacre shook the soul of India It revealed cruelty broke hearts and united the nation in grief From Punjab s pain rose courage protest and a new call for freedom