সমবেত হইলেন এবং জালিওয়ানাবাগের হত্যাকাণ্ড সম্বন্ধে তদন্ত আরম্ভ করিলেন।
রবীন্দ্রনাথ বড়লাটের নিকট যে প্রতিবাদ-পত্র লিখিয়াছিলেন তাহা হইতে কিয়দংশ উদ্ধত করিতেছি:—
“The enormity of the measures taken by the Government in the Punjab for quelling some local disturbances has with a rude shock revealed to our minds the helplessness of our position as British subjects in India.
Considering that such treatment has been meted out to a population, disarmed and resourceless, by a power which has the most terribly efficient organization for destruction of human lives, we must strongly assert that it can claim no political expediency, far less moral justification.
The accounts of insults and sufferings undergone by our brothers in the Punjab have trickled through the gagged silence reaching every corner of India, and the universal agony of indignation roused in the hearts of our people has been ignored by our rulers—possibly congratulating themselves for imparting what they imagine as salutory lessons.
Knowing that our appeals have been in vain and that the passion of vengeance is blinding the noble
