Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh | Jallianwala Bagh Massacre

Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh Udham Singh, popularly known as Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh, was an independent revolutionary of India’s freedom struggle movement. He was born on 26 December 1899 at Sunam, a tehsil in Sangrur district in the Indian state of Punjab. Udham Singh was a member of the Ghadar Party, an international political organization created with the goal of eliminating British authority from India. He had closely observed the massacre in Amritsar in 1919 and is best known for his role in the assassination of Michael O'Dwyer at Caxton Hall, London on 13 March 1940. Michael O'Dwyer was the then lieutenant governor of Punjab at the time of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar. Reginald Dyer's actions in Jallianwala Bagh were validated by O'Dwyer, who stated that he believed Dyer's order to shoot at the crowd was correct. In retribution for the massacre, Indian revolutionary Udham Singh assassinated O'Dwyer in 1940 at Caxton Hall in We...