Abstract
This chapter deals with the consequential impact of the year 1919 in India and China. Through an analysis of the narrative of the legacies of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in India and the May Fourth Movement in China, it analyses the significance of the year 1919 in the national histories of India and China. A few thousand kilometres away, in the city of Amritsar in Punjab at Jallianwala Bagh, exists another memorial set in red sandstone, which honours the ‘memory of martyrs’ of the massacre of 13 April 1919. In the occurrence of both the May Fourth and the Jallianwala Bagh incidents in 1919, one sees a correlation, direct as well as indirect, with the geopolitics of the First World War. Incidentally, the post-1919 era saw the rise of two political parties—the Indian National Congress (INC) in India and the Communist Party of China in China. The INC was established in 1885 as an elite party composed of educated Indians.
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