Introduction: This is a far longer post than I normally write. I wanted to mark the anniversary of Udham Singh’s execution at Pentonville Prison, but as I’d already written a post on him last year, Udham Singh, The Lonely Revolutionary, this year I decided to place him within the revolutionary struggle forming the turbulent landscape […]
Udham Singh
Udham Singh: The Lonely Revolutionary
On 31st July 1940, Udham Singh was hanged at Pentonville Prison, in London. On 29th July 2017, I went to see the poignant and heart-breaking documentary about the partition ‘Rabba Hun Ki Kariye – Thus Departed Our Neighbours.’ In one of its early scenes letters are being read, from a prisoner who was […]