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Udham Singh (born Sher Singh; 26 December 1899 – 31 July 1940) was an Indian revolutionary belonging to Ghadar Party and HSRA, best known for assassinating Michael O'Dwyer, the former lieutenant governor of the Punjab in India, on 13 March 1940.
On 13 March 1940, at Caxton Hall in London, Udham Singh, an Indian independence activist from Sunam who had witnessed the events in Amritsar and who had been wounded there, shot and killed Michael O'Dwyer, the lieutenant-governor of Punjab at the time of the massacre, who had approved Dyer's action and was believed to have been the main planner.
Dyer was portrayed by actor Edward Fox in the 1982 film Gandhi. [101] R. E. Dyer is a character in Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel Midnight’s Children, which dramatises the Amritsar massacre. [102] Dyer was also depicted in Indian movies such as The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002), [103] and Sardar Udham (2021). [104]
According to then civil surgeon Dr Smit 1,526 people [21] had been killed. O'Dwyer was informed of the event at 3 am the following day. [22] When he received Dyer's initial report, O'Dwyer gave permission to General William Beynon to send a telegram to Dyer that stated "your action correct and the lieutenant-governor approves". [6] [23]
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