The name of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer is still execrated in India as the author of the infamous 1919 Amritsar Massacre in which troops under his command opened fire on a crowd who, unaware of Dyers declaration of martial law, had gathered in a park. Reports indicate that more than a thousand people may have died. Though an official report exonerated Dyer, an Indian Army officer who had served in the subcontinent all his life, his career was finished and he returned from India to England to be greeted in some quarters as hero and in others as a butcher. In his retirement he wrote this account of a campaign he had