Personal Life:
Udham Singh was born on 26 December 1899. Udham Singh was born to a sikh family neighbourhood of Pilbab in Sunam. His father’s name is Tehal Singh. His mothers’s name is Narain Kaur. His mother died when he was very small, and a few years later, his father, Tehal Singh (a railway crossing watchman), also passed away in 1907.
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Revolutionary Period:
He was an Indian revolutionary belonging to the Gadar Party. The former lieutenant governor of the Punjab in India. On 13 March 1940. The homicide was done in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919. Udham Singh was tried afterwards and found guilty of murder and hanged in July 1940. While in custody, he used the name of Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, which represents the three major religions in India, and his anti-colonial sentiment.
Udham Singh was a good figure of the Indian-Independence movement. He is also referred to as Shaheed-Azam Sardar Udham Singh. On 10 April 1919, a number of local leaders allied to the Indian National Congress, including Satyapal and Saifuddin Kitchlew, were arrested under the terms of the Rowlatt Act. The military picket fired on a protesting crowd. Troops under the Command of Colonel Reginald Dyer opened fire on the crowd, killing several hundred; this became known variously as the Amritsar Massacre or the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
Shooting at Caxton Hall:
ON 13 March 1940, Michael O’Dwyer was scheduled to speak at a joint meeting of the East India Association and the Central Asian Society. Singh had entered the event with a ticket in his wife’s name. Singh secretly had a revolver inside a book that had pages cut in the shape of a revolver. This revolver was purchased by him from a soldier in a pub. Then he entered the hall and found an empty seat. As the meeting concluded, Udham Singh shot O’Dwyer as he moved towards the speaking platform.
Reaction:
In its 18 March 1940 issue, Amrita Bazar Patrikas wrote, “O’Dwyer’s name is connected with the Punjab incidents, which India will never forget. The Punjab section of Congress in the Punjab Assembly, led by Dewan Chaman Lal, refused to vote for the premier’s motion to condemn the assassination. In April 1940, the annual session of the All-India Congress committee was held in commemoration of the 21st anniversary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, the youth wing of the Indian National Congress Party displayed revolutionary slogans in support of Singh, applauding his action as patriotic and heroic.
Return of remains:
In 1974, Singh’s remains were exhumed and returned to India at the request of MLA Sadhu Singh Thind and cremated in his village of Sunam. The casket was received by Indira Gandhi, Shankar Dyal Sharma, and Zail Singh. On 2 August 1974, his ashes were divided into seven ums and distributed, one each to Haridwar, Kiratpur. Sunam and the museum at Jallianwala Bagh, and two urns to the library of the Shaheed Udham Singh Arts college in Sunam.
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Death :
He died on 31 July 1940, at age 40, in Pentonville Prison, London, England.
