Udham Singh, born
on 26 December 1899, was a revolutionary belonging to the Ghadar Party best
known for his assassination in London of Michael O' Dwyer, the former
lieutenant governor of the Punjab in India, on 13 March 1940. The assassination
was in revenge for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919. Singh was
subsequently tried and convicted of murder and hanged in July 1940. While in
custody, he used the name Ram Mohammad Singh Azad, which represents the three
major religions of Punjab and his ani-colonial sentiment.
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