Hunter Commission

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British government committee commission of inquiry

The Hunter Commission was a British-appointed committee of inquiry established in 1919 to investigate the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and related events in Punjab.

Aliases (2)

Hunter Commission Report ×1
Hunter Commission inquiry ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	British government committee → commission of inquiry →
appliesToJurisdiction	British India → Punjab →
appointedBy	British Government of India → Secretary of State for India →
archivesAt	National Archives of India → The National Archives (United Kingdom) →
chairperson	Lord William Hunter →
concludedThat	General Dyer committed a grave error → firing at Jallianwala Bagh was unjustified →
country	United Kingdom →
criticized	excessive use of force in Punjab → indiscriminate arrests and floggings →
endTime	early 1920s →
followedBy	parliamentary debate in British House of Commons → public outrage in India →
hasMember	Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad → George C. Rankin → Hugh Fraser → Jagat Narayan → S. N. Bannerjee → Thomas Smith → William Fraser → William Hunter →
hasPurpose	investigation of Jallianwala Bagh massacre → investigation of disturbances in Punjab in 1919 →
historicalPeriod	Indian independence movement →
inception	1919 →
investigatedEvent	Jallianwala Bagh massacre → civil disturbances in Punjab 1919 → martial law administration in Punjab 1919 →
languageOfWork	English →
locationOfHearings	Amritsar → Gujranwala → Lahore →
namedAfter	Lord William Hunter →
opposedBy	Indian National Congress → Punjab leaders →
partOf	British response to Rowlatt Act unrest →
perceivedAs	whitewashing of British responsibility by Indian nationalists →
producedWork	Hunter Commission Report →
recommended	disciplinary action against Reginald Dyer → reforms in martial law procedures →
significantPersonInProceedings	Mahatma Gandhi → Michael O'Dwyer → Rabindranath Tagore → Reginald Dyer →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1919 → Reginald Dyer →	investigatedBy
Jagat Narayan → Thomas Smith →	memberOf
Hunter Commission ("Hunter Commission Report") →	producedWork
Reginald Dyer ("Hunter Commission inquiry") →	subjectOf