Udham Singh
Also called: Shaheed Udham Singh · Topic: The National Movement: Gandhian Era · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
Udham Singh was a revolutionary from Punjab. He is remembered as "Shaheed" (martyr) Udham Singh. He wanted to punish the British officials responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 13 April 1919 in Amritsar. In that massacre, troops fired on an unarmed crowd and killed hundreds. His act showed that the anger over Jallianwala Bagh had not faded, even after twenty years.
Example
On 13 March 1940, Udham Singh shot Michael O'Dwyer at Caxton Hall in London. O'Dwyer had been Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab in 1919. Udham Singh was tried in Britain and hanged in July 1940.
Don't confuse with
- Bhagat Singh: an HSRA revolutionary who threw a bomb in the Central Assembly in April 1929. He was executed in 1931, at the age of 23. Udham Singh acted alone in London in 1940.
Related concepts
- Satyagraha
- Rajkumar Shukla
- Champaran satyagraha
- Tinkathia system
- Ahmedabad mill strike
- Kheda satyagraha
- Mahadev Desai
- Rowlatt Act
- Rowlatt satyagraha
- Jallianwala Bagh massacre