author
R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer
1864–1927
A British Indian Army officer remembered both for his own military memoir and for the brutal 1919 Amritsar massacre that made his name infamous. His writing offers a firsthand view of frontier warfare, while his life remains inseparable from one of the darkest episodes of British rule in India.
1 Audiobook
Raiders of the Sarhad Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War
by R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer
About the author
Born in Murree, India, in 1864, Reginald Edward Harry Dyer built his career in the British Indian Army and later published The Raiders of the Sarhad, an account of a campaign on the Persian-Baluchi frontier during the First World War. The book gives readers a direct glimpse of the military world he knew and the kind of imperial border fighting that shaped his reputation as an officer.
Dyer is far better known, however, for his role in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre at Amritsar on April 13, 1919. After ordering troops to fire on a large crowd gathered in an enclosed garden, he became one of the most controversial figures of the British Raj. The killings shocked India and Britain alike, and his name has remained tied to the violence and repression of colonial rule.
He died in England in 1927. Today, his memoir is often read less as a celebration of military adventure than as a historical document connected to the worldview of an empire and to a man whose actions had lasting consequences.