25000 endowment. The award was to be made every three years for anyone who made an innovation that increased agricultural production in Punjab. Death He died in London on 10 July 1927. His body was cremated and his ashes were brought back to India. A portion of the ashes were consigned to Ganges River and the rest buried in Lahore on the bank of the Ravi River. Sir Ganga Ram in literature A marble statue of Sir Ganga Ram once stood in a public square on Mall Road in Lahore. Famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto wrote a satire on persons who were trying to obliterate any memory of any Hindu in Lahore during Partition riots. In his satirical story "The Garland,” set during the religious riots of 1947, an inflamed mob in Lahore, after attacking a residential area, turned to attacking the statue of Sir Ganga Ram, the great Lahori Hindu philanthropist of Lahore. They first pelted the statue with stones; then smothered its face with coal tar. Then a man made a garland of old shoes climbed up to put it round the neck of the statue. The police arrived and opened fire. Among the injured was the fellow with the garland of old shoes. As he fell, the mob shouted: “Let us rush him to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital” forgetting that ironically they were trying to obliterate the memory of the very person who had founded the hospital where the person was to be taken for saving his life. Legacy A student hostel, Ganga Bhawan was established at IIT Roorkee (erstwhile University of Roorkee and Thomason college of civil engineering) on 26 November 1957 in his honour. The Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan was partially damaged in the blasts that destroyed a nearby Police Station on 27 May 2009. Today, his family through his sons and daughters reside across the world. Some of whom include Indu Vira, great-grandson and also son of Dharma Vira the founder of the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi. His other great-grandson, Dr. Ashwin Ram is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive computing in the College of Computing of the Georgia Institute of Technology, while his great-granddaughter, Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather, is a teacher and British politician. Works Named after Ram Institutes Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (India) Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (Pakistan) Places Gangapur, Punjab, Pakistan Sir