Significance of Patharughat in the Indian Freedom Struggle

Patharughat is a famous place in Indian history located in north east Asom is known for 140 unarmed peasants who fell to the bullets of British military police in 1894. It was J R Berington, officialiting commandment of the military police, who ordered the firing against hundreds at Patharughat in Darrang district on 28th January, 1894, when they protested against the British Government Policy of imposing exorbitant taxes. 

The Patharughat massacre occurred long before the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the people of Pathrughat want the martyrs of January 28, 1894, killings to get national recognition in the annuls of India' struggle. This tragedy was one of greatest tragedy of India struggle history.