Jallianwala Bagh is a historic garden and memorial of national importance close to the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, Punjab, India, preserved in the memory of those wounded and killed in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre that took place on the site on the festival of Baisakhi Day, 13 April 1919.

He also held Jallah, valued at RS 20,000 annually, in district Ludhiana while also serving as an ambassador to the Riyasat of Nabha.

His father, Chaudhary Gulab Rai Bains, was a grand Zamindar of Mahilpur and Jagirdar of Achharwal and villages near Adampur in the 1760s.

[1] In 1919, it was a dried-out plot, surrounded by tightly packed multi-occupancy buildings divided by some narrow streets, and having only one entrance and exit route.

[1] On the morning of Baisakhi, 13 April 1919, to the sound of military drums by the cities town criers, 1919 Punjab Brigadier General R.E.H.

[1] The announcements came at a time of noise and unusual heat, and missed key locations around the city, so that they were not widely disseminated.

[17] The 'Martyrs Well' is surrounded by the Martyr's memorial, a large structure with a sign giving a figure of "120" as the number of bodies that were recovered from the well.

Jallianwala Bagh is thus an everlasting symbol of non-violent & peaceful struggle for the freedom of India[16]The Flame of Liberty is represented by a central pylon.

[17][21] Using newspaper clippings and letters from Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore and others, 45 panels depicting the Amritsar massacre are displayed.

[26] One of the earliest was during the public enquiry by the Indian Congress, when Jawaharlal Nehru visited the site in the immediate aftermath of the massacre.

[27] Others from Britain include Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London in 2017,[27] and Dominic Asquith[28] and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby in 2019.

[30] Proposed renovations to Jallianwala Bagh were presented to India’s vice president Venkaiah Naidu, the governor of Punjab V.P.

Singh Badnore and other officials when they visited the site in April 2019 to attend a commemoration ceremony organised by the Ministry of Culture.