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What is the name of the book containing English translation of the 100-year-old classic Punjabi poem about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre?

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Literary works like Khooni Vaisakhi are both historical documents and creative expressions, providing personal perspectives on major events.
Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Drummer Hodge
  • Poems of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre
  • Poems about war
  • Khooni Vaisakhi
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This question is about the title of a translated Punjabi poem linked to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. Drummer Hodge, Poems of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and Poems about war can be grouped together and dismissed, since the first is an unrelated Hardy poem and the other two are just generic descriptions rather than the real title.

The actual poem is Khooni Vaisakhi, written in 1919 by eyewitness poet Nanak Singh and banned by the British soon after. It was translated into English in 2019, exactly a hundred years after the massacre, to bring the account to a wider readership.

So the correct answer is Khooni Vaisakhi.

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Placing this in its historical timeline helps separate the real answer from options that merely sound like they could fit. Nanak Singh survived the firing at Jallianwala Bagh in April 1919 and wrote a first hand account of it in verse almost immediately afterward, and that poem is what the question is pointing to.

  1. Drummer Hodge: written by Thomas Hardy about a British soldier in the Boer War of the late 1800s, this has no connection to Punjab, to 1919, or to the massacre at all, so it can be set aside on subject matter alone.
  2. Poems of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre: even though the words match the topic, there was never a book published under this exact name. It is simply not a title that exists.
  3. Poems about war: too broad and generic to be the specific centenary translation being asked about.
  4. Khooni Vaisakhi: Nanak Singh's original poem, suppressed by British censors after 1919, resurfaced when it was translated into English exactly a hundred years later in 2019, which lines up with everything the question describes.

The century long gap between the original 1919 poem and its 2019 English translation is the clearest marker pointing to Khooni Vaisakhi as the answer.

Therefore, the correct answer is Khooni Vaisakhi.

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