{"id":86575,"date":"2026-02-07T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=86575"},"modified":"2026-02-07T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T10:15:07","slug":"shaheed-udham-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shaheed-udham-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaheed Udham Singh, Biography, Early Life, Jallianwala Bagh Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shaheed Udham Singh was a revolutionary freedom fighter of India who avenged the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by assassinating Michael O\u2019Dwyer, the then Lieutenant Governor of Punjab.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Shaheed Udham Singh Early Life<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sardar Udham Singh was born on <\/span><b>26 December 1899<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Sunam, in present-day <\/span><b>Sangrur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> district of <\/span><b>Punjab<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time of his birth he was named <\/span><b>Sher Singh.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His father, <\/span><b>Tehal Singh<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, belonged to the Kamboj community and worked as a low-skilled, low-paid manual laborer, while his mother was named <\/span><b>Narain Kaur.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was <\/span><b>orphaned at an early age<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and was brought up at the <\/span><b>Central Khalsa Orphanage in Amritsar <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where he was named <\/span><b>Udham Singh.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At a very young age he started working for his survival. He worked as a labourer in Mesopotamia during <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/world-war-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">World War I<\/a><\/strong>. He also went to Africa to work in the railways of Uganda. During his time in Uganda he became familiar with a lot of workers of the Ghadar Party.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also went to America where he helped Punjabi Migrants from Mexico to reach America. He formed the <\/span><b>Azad Party in Chicago<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a part of Ghadar Party.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Shaheed Udham Singh and Jallianwala Bagh Massacre\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shaheed Udham Singh was about 20 years old when he witnessed the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/jallianwala-bagh-massacre\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jallianwala Bagh massacre<\/strong><\/a>, where General Dyer ordered firing on innocent, unarmed people. The incident became a turning point in his life and he decided to take revenge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><b>1924<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he <\/span><b>joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/ghadar-party\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghadar Party<\/a><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to overthrow colonial rule. He was also associated with <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/hindustan-socialist-republican-association\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hindustan Socialist Republic Association<\/a> (HSRA).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was <\/span><b>deeply influenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/bhagat-singh\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bhagat Singh<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1927, he was arrested for illegal possession of firearms and sentenced to five years in prison.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On 14 March 1940 he shot <\/span><b>Michael O\u2019 Dwyer, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab during the Jallianwala Bagh, in Caxton Hall, London.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During his trial, he used the name <\/span><b>&#8220;Ram Muhammad Singh Azad&#8221; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to symbolize religious unity in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was hanged in <\/span><b>Pentonville Prison<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on 31st July 1940, in London.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His remains (ashes) were brought back to India in <\/span><b>1974<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and are kept at the Jallianwala Bagh memorial.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is revered as <\/span><b>&#8216;Shaheed-i-Azam&#8217; (Great Martyr)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for his sacrifice and bravery in fighting against British imperialism.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaheed Udham Singh biography covering early life, Jallianwala Bagh revenge, Ghadar Party role, killing of Michael O&#8217;Dwyer and martyrdom in India freedom fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":86395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[786],"tags":[5216],"class_list":{"0":"post-86575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-studies","8":"tag-shaheed-udham-singh","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86600,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86575\/revisions\/86600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}