Global Hindu Heritage Foundation started with a mission to preserve, protect and promote the richness of Sanatana Dharma. To accomplish this goal, we felt that it is the utmost of the hour to teach about our culture, traditions, mantras, rituals, morals, and our national heroes. This week, our teachers talked about a great freedom fighter named Uddam Singh.
He is the hero who waited for 21 years to kill General O Dyer who was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and finally killed the scoundrel and kissed the pyre.
"On April 13, 1919, a 19-year-old boy came from an orphanage to provide fresh water to the participants of a peaceful freedom struggle meeting at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar. Suddenly, the British army opened fire on the unarmed crowd. Over 1,000 people were killed and over 2,000 were injured. The boy somehow survived the incident, but he was shocked to see the corpses around him and vowed to kill those who were responsible for the incident and took the blood-soaked soil in his hands.
He learned to shoot a gun and worked with revolutionary heroes to achieve his desired goal. In that order he also served five years in prison. After being released from jail, he took a bath in the Sarovaram in front of the Golden Temple and swore that he would not return until he killed Dyer in London. For that, he traveled through France, Switzerland and Austria and reached London in 1934. Even though there were opportunities to kill Dyer at times, he felt that the British atrocities needed to be known to the world, that is, a proper platform was needed. On March 13, 1940, knowing that Dyer was going to give a lecture in Coxton Hall, he put a revolver in a book and hid the weapon in it. In the court, Uddham Singh said, "I don't think what I did was wrong. "I thought it was my responsibility to find out the factors behind the Jallianwala Bagh incident," he said. On July 31 of the same year, Uddham Singh was hanged in Pentonville Jail in London UK.
Deeply scarred by the Jallianwala massacre and full of anger against the British, Udham Singh soon got involved in the freedom struggle that was then unfolding both in India and in foreign countries. He travelled to East Africa in the early 1920s working as a laborer before arriving in the USA. For some time, he even worked as a toolmaker at the factory of Ford in Detroit. While in San Francisco, he met up with the members of the Ghadar Party, which comprised of immigrant Punjabi-Sikhs who were conducting a revolutionary movement from the USA to free India from the tyrannical British rule. For the next few years, he travelled all over America to garner support for their activities assuming a number of aliases like Sher Singh, Ude Singh, and Frank Brazil.
In 1974, more than three decades after his death, at the behest of MLA Sadhu Singh Thind Udham Singh’s mortal remains were exhumed and returned to India. The casket, brought back personally by Thind was received by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Giani Zail Singh, the then chief minister of Punjab, and Shankar Dayal Sharma, the then President of the Congress party. Subsequently, Udham Singh was cremated according to Sikh rites at Sunam, his birthplace, and his ashes were immersed in the waters of the River Sutlej. A part of the ashes was retained and are now kept in a sealed urn at Jallianwala Bagh.
"Let's pay tribute to the hero Uddham Singh on his death anniversary, who showed the society that it is not enough to have a goal to achieve great things, but also to sacrifice one's life for the achievement of that goal. ".
Donations are appreciated;
By Zelle: ghhfusaorg@gmail.com
PayPal: savetemples.org
By Check: You can also send a check payable to GHHF,14726 Harmony Lane, Frisco, TX 75035.
It is tax-deductible.
By Rupees: call 601-918-7111; +91 83096 43979