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Source for Somaliland protectorate?

The bottom of the textbox for the page claims the Raj was preceded by the Mughal Empire (De jure) and Company rule in India (De facto). It also claims that the British Raj was succeeded by; the Dominion of India, the Dominion of Pakistan, the Persian Gulf Residency, the colonies of Burma and Aden, the strait settlements and British Somaliland.

However, the page doesn't reference any sources to back up the claim about British somaliland being under the British Raj at any time and the wiki page for british somaliland makes no reference to this.

Can someone add a source to back this up, and perhaps make some edits to the page on british somaliland as well?

This source (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068370802658666) by historian James Onley in Volume 40, 2009 - Issue 1 of Asian Affairs would be a good source.

I'm not 100% familiar with the format for sourcing something like this. Monziguazini (talk) 10:18, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 12 February 2024

Action needed- add new "Massacre" section:

Please add the following new "Massacre" section below the "Famine" section and above the "Education" section. 

== Massacre of Indian civilians by British troops==

This is the list of civilian massacre of Indians, in most cases comprised of unarmed peaceful crowds, by the British colonial troops. Britain has never formally apologised for these massacres, but merely expressed "deep regret" in 2019 only for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.

  • Jallianwala Bagh massacre‎ on 13 April 1919 at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar in Punjab:
    Brigadier General R. E. H. Dyer's troops[1] massacred 379 to more than 1,500 unarmed peaceful civilians,[2] and wounded over 1,200 other Indian civilians.[3][4] The level of casual brutality, and lack of any accountability, stunned the entire nation,[5] resulting in a wrenching loss of faith of the general Indian public in the intentions of the United Kingdom.[6]
  • Munshiganj Raebareli massacre on 7 January 1921 at Munshiganj in Raebareli in Uttar Pradesh:[7]
    The official death toll of Indian farmers is shown minimal by the British historians whereas other estimates put the death toll in the hundreds,[7] causing the nearby Sai river turn red from the blood.[8]
  • Salanga massacre[9] on 27 January 1922 in Salanga bazaar in Raiganj Upazila in then-Bengal province & present-day Bangladesh:[10]
    The police opened fire killing hundreds,[11] deathtoll ranged from 1,500 to 4,500 people.[12] A mass graveyard remains near Salanga Bazar at Rahmatganj,[12] where Salanga Day is commemorated annually on 27 January in the memory of victims.[9]
  • Takkar massacre on 28 May 1930 at Takkar in Mardan tehsil in North-West Frontier Province of British India:
    When local villagers attempted to stop soldiers from arresting freedom fighter activists of the Khudai Khidmatgar movement, in the ensuing shooting an English police officer called Murphy was killed, three days later, a large force of British colonial troops attacked the village in retaliation,[16] killing 70 and wounding another 150 people in the massacre. A monument has been built in the memory of victims.[17]

Edit comment: New section titled "Massacre" created with condensed snd rephrased content taken from the wikilinked articles as permissible under the Wikipedia guidelines. Thank you. 220.255.242.109 (talk) 06:25, 12 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Partly done: Thanks for compiling this! I added the section, but ommitted "Britain has never formally apologised for these massacres, but merely expressed "deep regret" in 2019 only for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre." Please provide a reliable source for this claim. Thanks. —Of the universe (say hello) 13:35, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Also, it would probably be good to make a list of massacres as a standalone article, link to that list in this article, and condense this section into prose. —Of the universe (say hello) 13:37, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ "Punjab disturbances, April 1919; compiled from the Civil and military gazette". Lahore Civil and Military Gazette Press 1921. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  2. ^ Nigel Collett (2006). The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer. A&C Black. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-85285-575-8.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hunter was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Dolly, Sequeria (2021). Total History & Civics 10 ICSE. New Delhi: Morning Star. p. 71.
  5. ^ Bipan Chandra et al, India's Struggle for Independence, Viking 1988, p. 166
  6. ^ Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf (2006). A concise history of modern India. Cambridge University Press. p. 169
  7. ^ a b NIC. "DISTRICT RAEBARELI". raebareli.nic, Govt website. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Raebarali Munshiganj Massacre which reminded of Jallianwala Bagh". I G News. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  9. ^ a b "Salanga Day today", The Daily Star (Dhaka, Bangladesh), 27 January 2009
  10. ^ "The Salanga Massacre of 1922: Bangladesh's forgotten bloodbath", by Shahnawaz Khan Chandan, The Daily Star (Dhaka, Bangladesh), 25 January 2019
  11. ^ Kabir Topu, Ahmed Humayun (2021-02-19). "The Salanga Massacre of 1922: History needs to be preserved". The Daily Star. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  12. ^ a b "An almost forgotten part of our glorious past", by Pradip Kumar Dutta, The Asian Age (Delhi)
  13. ^ Sarwar, Kazi (20 April 2002). "Qissa Khwani's tale of tear and blood". Statesman.com.pk.
  14. ^ Correspondent, Our (2016-08-24). "In remembrance: ANP chief commemorates 1930 massacre - The Express Tribune". Tribune.com.pk. Retrieved 2016-12-04. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  15. ^ "ANP to honour Hathi Khel massacre victims today - Newspaper". Dawn.Com. 2016-08-24. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
  16. ^ Civilian Jihad: Non-violent Struggle, Democrat Maria J. Stephan
  17. ^ "Residents remember Takkar martyrs of 1930.A monument has been built in order to praise the martyrs of the Takkar massacre", The News - Jang group, 29 May 2010.
  18. ^ Newsfact, India (20 April 2021). "Vidurashwatha Massacre, the Forgotten Jallianwala Bagh of South India". Hindustan Times. Hindustan Times. Retrieved 18 August 2022.

Semi-protected edit request on 15 June 2024

Add: 'At the Jallianwala Bagh massacre on 13 April 1919' before 'Brigadier General R.E.H. Dyer's troops...', in the section Massacre of Indian civilians by British troops 108.35.46.14 (talk) 22:51, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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