Anakhi Yoddha - Shaheed Udham Singh
Released 2015
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Genre Kirtan
Number of discs 1
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This track is about Shaheed Udham Singh (ਉਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ/उधम सिंहढ़) who was given the name Sher Singh shortly after his birth. He was a Sikh, a Punjabi Marxist and a nationalist mostly known for his assassination of Sir Michael O'Dwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avengement of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre.

Along with Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh is also believed to be one of the earliest Marxists/Bolsheviks in India. While living in England in 1940, Singh assasinated Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who had been Governor of the Punjab at the time of the Amritsar Massacre, while General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer had ordered British Indian Army troops to fire on a large gathering of peaceful Indian protesters in Punjab, that had gathered in a garden (the Jallianwala Bagh) near the Harmandar Sahib (the Golden Temple) on Vaisakhi day in 1919. Traditionally Vaisakhi is a time of great celebration in the Punjab, when Sikhs from all over India gather by the thousands. The large crowd had gathered to protest a recent clampdown by the British Government, including the arrest of some activists, who like many other Indians were disappointed when rather than being awarded for their sacrifices during WWI, they were punished instead with the proposals of the the Rowlatt Act.

 

Anakhi Yoddha - Shaheed Udham Singh

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