Some historians believe this was the turning point where the Empire started to ease up on the senseless killing, bar from a few ‘oopsies’ (such as that time we systematically killed 11,000–90,000 people in Kenya). Whilst that’s probably not the case, it at least seems to have been the point when a lot of Indians loyal to the British abandoned the ‘loyal to the British’ part of their descriptors. The problem with shooting down a crowdful of peaceful protestors for showing support for anti-Empire leaders is you do sort of prove the leaders have a bit of a point about the Empire.
