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    UDHAM SINGH

    • December 27, 2020
    • Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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    UDHAM SINGH

    Subject : History

    Context: December 26 is the birth anniversary of freedom fighter Udham Singh, known for avenging the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919.

    Concept:

    • He was born in Sunam in Punjab’s Sangrur district in 1899.
    • He was a political activist who got associated with the Ghadar Party while in the US.
    • In 1934, Singh made his way to London with the purpose of assassinating O’Dwyer, who in 1919 had been the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and unsurprisingly, Singh considered O’Dwyer to be responsible for the massacre.
    • Instead of Dyer, who instructed his men to open fire at the crowd gathered in Jallianwala Bagh, O’Dwyer is considered to be the actual perpetrator, since Dyer could not have executed it without his permission.
    • On March 13, 1940 Singh shot O’Dwyer at a meeting of the East India Association and the Royal Central Asian Society at Caxton Hill.
    • He was sentenced to death and was hanged on July 31, 1940 at Pentonville Prison.
    History UDHAM SINGH
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