Girdhari Lal

Girdhari Lal, was a manager at the Amritsar Flour and General Mills Company, and a key witness to the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre in April 1919, who gave testimony in the Congress Party’s inquiry into the Punjab disturbances.^[1][2][3]

Along with Madan Mohan Malaviya, Motilal Nehru, Swami Shraddhanand, Saifuddin Kitchlew, Lala Harkishen Lal, and Mahatma Gandhi, he became a member of the committee that acquired the Jallianwalla Bagh grounds for the purpose of making it a memorial.^[3]

References

1. Wagner, p. 120
2. Collett, p. 260
3. Bakshi, S. R., ed. (2007). "3. Firing in the Bagh". Punjab Through the Ages. Sarup & Sons. pp. 35, 163. ISBN 81-7625-738-9.

Further reading

• The Congress Inquiry Report. Bombay: K. Santanam. 1920.

Bibliography

• Collett, Nigel (2007). The Butcher of Amritsar: General Reginald Dyer. A&C Black. ISBN 1-85285-575-4.
• Furneaux, Rupert (2022). Massacre at Amritsar. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-68932-7.
• Wagner, Kim A. (2019). Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear & the Making of a Massacre. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-24546-2.