The controversy surrounding the number of people killed in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre remains unresolved to this day. General Dyer on the conclusion of the firing had retired to the Ram Bagh with his troops. He did not care to attend to the wounded, nor did he make an effort to remove the dead bodies either on that day or the day following. No official, accurate records were collected by the British authorities immediately after the Massacre.
Consequently, various estimates and accounts which exist today are of a later period. The Government issued notice on 7 August 1919, four months after the Massacre and asked the families of the killed to come forward to provide information. As the Government started collecting the information about the dead and the wounded very late, much of the information was lost.
In the present work, the authors have made an effort to collect information and evidence on the number of the killed and the wounded. They don't claim that they have solved the puzzle as it is not possible after hundred years.
Under the present work, they have examined different lists with different figures available from various archives.
They have visited various cities/towns/ villages of Amritsar, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur districts to collect and verify the information.