Shaheed Udham Singh

Subject : History

Concept :

Udham Singh was born in Sunam in Punjab’s Sangrur district in 1899.
He was an Indian revolutionary and got associated with the Ghadar Party while in the US.
He is best known for his assassination in London of Michael O’Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of Punjab. The assassination was done in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919.
Troops under the command of Colonel Reginald Dyer had opened fire on the crowd, killing several hundred.
Udham Singh was given the title of Shaheed-i-Azam (the great martyr).