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India Railways - Great Indian Peninsula Railway - GIPR bogie-type coach Nr. 4749 - British troop train in May 1919

A May 1919 photo of British troops returning with a Great Indian Peninsula Railway train from the riots at Bombay. The riots may have been triggered by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 13, 1919. A detailed account of the massacre is available in the following Wikipedia link:

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre

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