Reginald Dyer, a commander for this state, went absolutely insane and turned his car-mounted machine guns on a crowd of festival-goers in a 1919 massacre, while a caravan of protesters arrived at Dandi and began making salt to protest this government's taxes.
This government briefly and disastrously put its army quartermasters in charge of all transportation logistics, leading to a horrifying incident in which 61 prisoners suffocated when troops lost track of them after locking them in a freight transport. An early test for this government was the Orissa famine, while an early death knell for this state was the failure of the Cripps mission. This state responded to the tepid reception of its (*) Montagu-Chelmsford reforms by cracking down through the Rowlatt Acts, and was plagued by the long-running Moplah unrest. Reginald Dyer, a commander for this state, went absolutely insane and turned his car-mounted machine guns on a crowd of festival-goers in a 1919 massacre, while a caravan of protesters arrived at Dandi and began making salt to protest this government's taxes. The perpetrators of the Amritsar massacre, for 10 points, name this state protested by Mahatma Gandhi, a colonial administration directed by the Crown to oversee cities like Delhi and Bombay.
This government briefly and disastrously put its army quartermasters in charge of all transportation logistics, leading to a horrifying incident in which 61 prisoners suffocated when troops lost track of them after locking them in a freight transport.
The {British Raj} or {British India} [prompt on partial answer; accept anything {establishing} that {British people} are in {control} of {India}]