We need not, however, accept this opinion as final, as
we cannot say that the background of the many unfortunate events into which Lord Hunter's Committee inquired has been fully ex- amined. Sir Michael O'Dwyer, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab, took an extremely serious view of the situation, and in certain respects the Government of India has bestowed high praise upon him. The Minority Report of the Committee disagrees with the Majority on very few matters of fact. The great difference is the emphasis laid by the two Reports tIpcn the faults of the Administration and upon the errors of General Dyer in particular. The Minority Report, that is to say the Report of the Indian members of the Committee, describes General Dyer's action as " inhuman and un-British," and his conduct after the firing as " in keeping with this attitude," as he gave no directions for the wounded to be attended to. No fair-minded person who reads the documents can possibly say that the Government are backward in preserving the great traditions under which India has been governed.
