Topic/Essay For Students: Sardar Udham Singh

 

Topic/Essay For Students: Sardar Udham Singh; Mufawad

"DEAR BHAGAT: WHAT WILL BE THE FIRST THING YOU DO, WHEN WE GET FREEDOM.

BHAGAT REPLIES: THE EVENING BEFORE FREEDOM, FIRST THING I DO WILL WATCH A GOOD CHARLIE CHAPLIN MOVIE.

THEN I WILL BUY COSTLY BRITISH WINE, ROMANCE WITH WIFE, EAT BREAD AND SLEEP.

THE NEXT DAY WHEN I WAKE UP, I WILL REPEAT THE SAME."

TODAY, ON THE EVE OF VEERGATHA 3.0, I SABREENA MUSHTAQ WANT TO PAY SMALL TRIBUTE TO MY FAVOURITE HERO, A GALLENT, A MARTYR WHO PLAYED IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE OF INDIA & LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR OUR COUNTRY.

THE ABOVE DIALOG, I HAVE TAKEN FROM A MOVIE NAMED "SARDAR UDHAM."

WHO WAS SARDAR UDHAM AND HOW MANY OF US KNOW ABOUT HIM.

IT WAS SPRING OF 1919 AND DATE WAS APRIL THE 13TH. AND, IT WAS BIASAKHI AS WELL.

A PEACEFUL CROWD HAD GATHERED AT JALLIANWALA BAGH, AMRITSAR PUNJAB TO PROTEST AGAINST THE ARREST OF DR SATYA PAL AND DR SAIF DIN KITCHLOO.

IN ITS RESPONSE, A BRIGADIER GENERAL OF BRISTISH INDIAN ARMY, GENERAL DYER ALONG WITH HIS TROOPS SORROUNDED THE AREA BY 4.30 P.M.

BY 5.40 P.M , THE CRUEL GENERAL ORDERED HIS MEN TO SHOOT ON UNARMED AND PEACEFUL PROTESTORS.

IT IS SAID THAT AROUND 1 THOUSAND INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN THIS MASSACRE  MANY HUNDREDS WERE INJURED AS WELL.

THESE UNFORTUNATE KILLINGS SHOCKED THE INDIANS ACROSS LENGTH AND BREADTH AND BECAME ONE OF THE NAILS IN COFFIN OF BRITISH RAJ.

HERE, IT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION THAT "13"  ILL FATED KASHMIRIS ALSO DIED IN THIS MASSACRE.

NOW, HERE STARTS THE STORY OF OUR HERO THE SARDAR UDHAM SINGH. SARDAR UDHAM WAS ONE OF THE PERSONS INJURED IN JALLIANWALA BAGH.

SARDAR UDHAM SINGH WAS BORN IN 1899 IN SUNAM, PUNJAB.

HIS ACTUAL NAME WAS "SHER SINGH".

AFTER JALLIANAWALA BAGH MASSACRE, UDHAM SINGH GOT INVOLVED IN REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS AND WAS INFLUENCED BY BHAGAT SINGH.

IN 1924, HE BECAME PART OF GHADAR PARTY TO OVERTHROW BRITISH RAJ.

SOON HE WAS ARRESTED AND JAILED. UPON HIS RELEASE IN 1931, HE SLIPPED TO KASHMIR AND FROM  HERE TO GERMANY.

IN 1934, THE "SHER" REACHED LONDON TO ZERO IN ON HIS "SHIKAR"

BUT WHO WAS HIS SHIKAR. IT WAS MICHAEL O' DWYER.

THE MICHAEL O DWYER WAS GOVERNER OF PUNJAB AT TIME OF JALLIANAWALA BAGH MASSACARE.

THEN CAME MARCH THE 13TH, 1940. MICHAEL O DWYER WAS SPEAKING AT CAXTON HALL, LONDON.

ONE OF THE GUEST AT CAXTON HALL THAT DAY WAS OUR "SHER" UDHAM SINGH.

UDHAM HID HIS REVOLVER INSIDE A BOOK WITH PAGES CUT FROM INSIDE IN A SHAPE OF REVOLVER.

AS  DWYER MOVED TO PODIUM, THE SHER, UDHAM SINGH PUNCHED HIS HEART AND LUNGS WITH BULLETS.

UDHAM WAS ARRESTED, SENT ON TRIAL AND HANGED ON JUNE THE 31ST, 1940.

HIS MORTAL REMAINS ARE PRESERVED AT JALLAINAWALA BAGH.

WHEN IN JAIL, HE GAVE US AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE.

HE USED TO CALL HIMSELF "RAM MOHAMMAD SINGH AZAD" THUS GIVING US THE MESSAGE OF INCLUSIVNESS, BROTHERHOOD AND UNITY.

IT IS SAID THAT A TIGER NEVER FORGETS ANYONE WHO WRONGS IT.

SARDAR UDHAM SINGH WHOSE ACTUAL NAME WAS SHER SINGH PROVED TO BE A TIGER.

HE DELIVERED JUSTICE TO VICTIMS OF JALLIANAWALA BAGH MASSACRE AFTER LONG 21 YEARS. 

WHILE WE CELEBRATE our freedom, LET US NOT FORGET LESSER KNOWN FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF MOTHER INDIA.

"TUM HO IK ZINDA JAVIAAD RIVAYAT KAY CHIRAG

TUM THODI SHAM KAA SOORAJ HO KI DAAL JAVO GY"