Excerpt from Correspondence Between the Government of India and the Secretary of State for India on the Report of Lord Hunter's Committee: In Continuation of CMD. 681; Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty 1. We submit for your information and for any orders which His Majesty's Government may desire to issue, the Report which was presented on 8th March, 1920, by the Disorders Committee, together with our review of the Report and our conclusions thereon. In the ordinary course the Report would have been published with a Resolution of the Government of India in the Home Department, but we consider the subject so important that after discussion with you we have decided that it is best to communicate to you our views and findings on the report for the information of His Majesty's Government. We desire to add that our views and conclusions are unanimous except on those points where the dissent of our honourable colleague, Mr. Shafi, has been expressly indicated. We may also state that our honourable colleague, Sir George Lowndes, now on leave, concurred in all the conclusions which we had reached up to the time of his departure. 2. In Resolution No. 2168, dated the 14th October, 1919, the Governor General in Council with the approval of the Secretary of State appointed a Committee to investigate the disturbances in Bombay, Delhi and the Punjab, their causes, and the measures taken to cope with them. The Committee began its sittings on the 29th October, 1919, and after hearing evidence at Delhi, Lahore, Ahmedabad, and Bombay finished its labours in the first week of March, 1920, when its report was presented to the Government of India. Before reviewing the findings of the Committee we desire to make some preliminary observations regarding the scope of the enquiry, the procedure followed by the Committee in recording evidence, and the general character of its conclusions. 3. In order to obtain a general view of the character of the disturbances and of the scope of the enquiry it will be useful to explain briefly the relative geographical position of the chief centres of disorder and to refer to a few salient dates which indicate the sequence of events in point of time. It was at Delhi - the Capital of India and from its historical and commercial importance a determining factor of considerable weight in the attitude of the rest of Northern India - that disturbances first occurred on the 30th March. They were of such a character as required the use of the military to restore order and before this was achieved it became necessary to fire twice on the mob. On the 10th April violent rioting took place at Amritsar and Lahore in the Punjab, and at Ahmedabad in the Presidency of Bombay, and distinct unrest manifested itself in a minor degree at places as far distant as Calcutta and Bombay. Lahore is a city of 230,000 inhabitants and the capital of the Punjab. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.