BIOGRAPHY OF UDHAM SINGH PDF

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He became involved in Indian freedom movement very early and he was extremely influenced by Sardar Bhagat Singh. Udham Singh was arrested very early in life by police for possessing unlicensed firearms and was sentenced to five years in prison. On getting released in , he went to Kashmir and later escaped to Germany. During Jallianwala bagh massacre, General Dyer had ordered his troops to fire on the protesting assembled crowd without provocation.

This led to the death of an estimated people with over 1, people getting injured. The assassination carried out by Udham Singh is considered to be the avenging of the massacre. After the assassination, he went on a day hunger strike while he was in prison and had to be forcibly fed by the authorities. For killing General dyer , Udham Singh was sentenced to death and hanged at Pentonville Prison in Mahatma Gandhi actually condemned the assassination and said in press releases that he regarded it as an act of insanity.

Udham Singh Nagar in Uttarakhand had been named after him in October