AJNALA MASSACRE Well of Martyrs SARASIJ MAJUMDER Introduction We are familiar with Jallianwala Bug. The British monarch, who, visited Jallianwala Bagh in 1997 to pay homage to those killed in the firing ordered by a British Army officer, FELL SHORT OF TENDERING APOLOGY, AND EXPRESSED “GRIEF”. An equally tragic mass killing was ordered, executed, and buried under earth by East India Company, in 1857, in the name of suppressing the uprising. We will sum up below the CRUEL, and INHUMAN act of the then those Britishers in India. THE AJNALA MASSACRE occurred during India’s first War of Independence, 1857. Post event led to significant migration of families of victims from Northern India to the Southern regions. Victims were from the 26TH NATIVE BENGAL INFANTRY REGIMENT. Analysis of Remains from Ajnala In 2014, amateur historian Surinder Kochhar discovered skeletal remains of 282 soldiers in a well beneath a gurdwara in Ajnala, near Amritsar, Punjab. Remains w