Amritsar
Amritsar - the holy city of Sikhs, has grown from a sacred village pond into
a spiritual temporal centre of Sikh culture. The city gets its name from the
pool-Amritsar (Pool of Nectar), which was constructed by the fourth religious
preceptor of the Sikh faith. It also lies on the Asian Highway.
It is also the city where Jaliyan-wala-bagh, the garden where scores of innocent
Indian men, women, children were massacred by the British. Events of such magnitude
catalysed the struggle for Indian independence.