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NDA 2019 GAT · General Knowledge · Freedom Struggle · medium

Who headed the committee set up to inquire into the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919?

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Who headed the committee set up to inquire into the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919?
  1. A. Lord Simon
  2. B. Lord Hunter
  3. C. Lord Cripps
  4. D. Lord Mountbatten
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Answer: (B) Lord Hunter

The Disorders Inquiry Committee, popularly the Hunter Committee, was appointed in 1919 under Lord William Hunter. Simon headed the Commission of 1927, Cripps came in 1942 with a mission, and Mountbatten became Viceroy in 1947, so these belong to different events.
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