 O'Dwyer's response to the Amritsar troubles was that, that "what comes of having that Jew in Whitehall", referring to Montagu.In 1922, Sir Sankaran Nair referred to O'Dwyer in his book, "Gandhi and Anarchy", stating that "before the reforms it was in the power of the Lieutenant-Governor, a single individual, to commit the atrocities in the Punjab which we know only too well".O'Dwyer subsequently successfully sued Nair for libel and was awarded £500 damages.