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GK QUESTION#2641

Which of the following British officers issued the infamous ‘crawling order’ whereby Indians had to crawl on all fours to pass an alley?

  1. AGeneral DyerCorrect answer
  2. BWarren Hastings
  3. CLord Irwin
  4. DLord Curzon
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A. General Dyer

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General Dyer imposed the humiliating crawling order at Amritsar in 1919.

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