Shaheed Udham singh biography - biography of udham singh

 

Shaheed Udham singh

Shaheed Udham singh biography - biography of udham singh

Shaheed Udham Singh was an Indian revolutionary who is known for the murder of Dyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab in British India. He was assassinated by Udham Singh on 13 March 1940. It is said that he committed this murder to avenge the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919.

Shaheed Udham Singh is a well-known face in the Indian independence campaign. Local people also know him by the name of Shahid-e-Azam Sardar Udham Singh. In October 1995, the Mayawati Government named a district in Uttarakhand (Udham Singh Nagar) after him.

Sardar Udham Singh was born on 26 December 1899 in a Sikh family in Sunam village in Sangrur district of Punjab state. Sardar Udham Singh's mother died in 1901, two years after his birth and father Sardar Tejpal Singh was an employee of the railway who died in 1907, 8 years after the birth of Udham Singh. In this way.

Now after the death of his parents, Udham Singh's elder brother Mukta Singh Udham Singh was admitted to the Khalsa Orphanage in Amritsar. Shaheed Udham Singh's name was Sher Singh in childhood, but he was named Udham Singh after giving Sikh initiation rites in the orphanage. He left the orphanage in 1919 after passing the matriculation examination in 1918.

On 13 April 1919, local leaders organized a huge gathering in Jallianwala Bagh to protest against the Rowlatt Act of the British. Due to this Rowlatt Act, the basic rights of Indians were being violated. Around 20,000 unarmed protesters had gathered at the Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar at that time. At that time Udham Singh was engaged in arranging water for that huge gathering.

Participation in freedom movement

In the history of the independence movement, the day of April 1919 is immersed in tears, when the British opened indiscriminate fire on unarmed Indians gathering in Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar and killed hundreds of innocent people. Among the dead were the milch children clinging to their mothers' chests, the old people dreaming of the country's freedom in the evening of life, and the youth who were ready to loot themselves for the country. This incident shook Udham Singh and he decided to avenge the British. 'Udham Singh alias Ram Mohammad Azad Singh', who laid the foundation of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh unity, considered General Michael Odaire, who was then the governor of Punjab province, responsible for the incident. On the order of the Governor, Brigadier General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer surrounded the Jallianwala Bagh with 90 soldiers and opened fire with machine guns.

Udham Singh inspired by the thoughts of Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Shaheed Udham Singh was greatly influenced by Bhagat Singh's actions and his revolutionary group. 1935 When he visited Kashmir, he was captured with a photograph of Bhagat Singh. He was considered an accomplice of Bhagat Singh without any offense and Bhagat Singh as his mentor. Udham Singh loved singing patriotic songs and was very fond of songs by Ram Prasad Bismil, a great poet of revolutionaries.

Udham Singh jailed

Shaheed Udham Singh thought of taking revenge due to the rage and grief of this incident. He soon left India and went to America. He learned about the Babbar Akali Movement in the early 1920s and returned to India. He came in hiding with a pistol, due to which he was arrested by the Amritsar police when caught. Due to this he was jailed for 4 years for possessing unlicensed pistol.

After his release from jail, after this he came to live in his permanent residence Sunam, but the British police there persecuted him, due to which he moved to Amritsar. In Amritsar, Udham Singh opened a shop in which a painter's board was placed and Ram Mohammad Singh Azad started living in the name of Ram Muhammad Singh Azad. Udham Singh had chosen this name in such a way that names of all religions were present in it.

Michael O'Dwyer shot dead

Shaheed Udham Singh was an eyewitness to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre that took place on 13 April 1919. The exact number of people killed in Jallianwala Bagh could never be revealed due to political reasons. With this incident, Udham Singh took the pledge of Jallianwala Bagh in his hands to teach Michael O Dyer a lesson. To carry out his mission, Udham Singh traveled to Africa, Nairobi, Brazil and America by various names. In 1934, Udham Singh reached London and resided there at 9, Elder Street Commercial Road. There he bought a car for the purpose of travel and also a revolver with six bullets to complete his mission. This heroic revolutionary of India waited for the right time to establish Michael O Dyer's whereabouts.

In 1940, Udham Singh got the chance to avenge the deaths of hundreds of his siblings. On 13 March 1940, 21 years after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, the Royal Central Asian Society had a meeting at Caxton Hall in London where Michael O Dyer was also one of the speakers. Udham Singh reached the meeting place on that day itself. He hide his revolver in a thick book. For this, he had cut the pages of the book into the shape of a revolver in such a way that Dior's life-threatening weapon. 

Martyrdom

On 4 June 1940, Udham Singh was convicted of Dyer's murder and on 31 July 1940, he was hanged in 'Pentonville Jail'. Thus, it became immortal by giving its martyrdom in the history of revolutionary Indian freedom struggle. On 31 July 1974, the British handed over his remains to India. Udham Singh's ashes were brought to India with honors. His tomb remains in his village.