Abbas Tyabji attended , along with Mahatma Gandhi , the Social Conference held at Godhra in 1917 . At the time , he was seen as a model of Britishness , leading a Western lifestyle and wearing impeccably tailored English suits . All of that changed after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in 1919 , when he was appointed by the Indian National Congress as chairman of an independent fact-finding committee . He cross-examined hundreds of eyewitnesses and victims of the atrocities committed by Reginald Dyer , reacting with " nausea and revulsion . " That experience drove him to become a loyal follower of Gandhi , giving strong support to the cause of the Indian National Congress
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Jallianwala Bagh massacre
Abbas Tyabji