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Ganga Ram Agarwal was an Agarwal edit
It is well known that he was an Agarwal (also spelled Agrawal) a well known merchant community.
He was definitly not a Khatri. Both communities are merchants but are completely distinct. However there has been some intermarriage between the two, often an Agrawal husband and Khatri wife, for example the parents of Lala Lajpat Rai. That can cause some confusion.
Agrawals are from Agroha region in Haryana. Khatris on the other hand are from the Pothohar region, now in Pakistan.
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There are a couple on facebook made available to the public, are we allowed to use those???
to be added later once body paragraph has more info : He was the first person who established the Renala Hydral Power Station in Renala Khurd, Punjab in 1925. lilpiglet — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilpiglet (talk • contribs) 08:01, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
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Although the buildings that he designed were cunstructed in 19th and early 20th centuries, they still are considered landmark and He has designed General Post Office (Lahore), Lahore Museum, Aitchison College, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Mayo Hospital, The Mall, which is why he is termed by Lahoris and the Government of Pakistan as Father of Modern Lahore. lilpiglet — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilpiglet (talk • contribs) 08:15, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
il 1851 – July 10, 1927) was a civil engineer born in Mangtanwala, a village of Punjab Province in British India, now in Pakistan, and completed his educated at the Thomason College of Civil Engineering in 1873. He was a philanthropist, architect, civil engineer and agriculturist during the time of British India. lilpiglet 08:17, 14 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilpiglet (talk • contribs)
Father of Modern Lahore: [1] and [2]
During his time, was addressed "Executive Engineer, of Lahore [3] and [4]
Planner of Model Town and National College of Arts - [5]
Also, if someone can perhaps mention or provide the location where the commons for the pictures to get a gallery going. --lilpiglet 02:29, 20 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilpiglet (talk • contribs)