Udham Singh
Radio Haanji Podcast
Udham Singh: The True Story Behind the Legend - Pritam Singh Rupal - Gauatam Kapil
- Published
- July 31, 2026
- Duration
- 48:58
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Aug 9, 2026
Discusses On July 31, 1940, a man was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for a killing he had waited twent…
Summary
On July 31, 1940, a man was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for a killing he had waited twenty-one years to carry out. That much of the Udham Singh story, most people already know. What gets lost — in folk songs, in film posters, in the handful of paragraphs textbooks devote to him — is everyone he was before that morning: an orphan, a soldier, a f…
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On July 31, 1940, a man was hanged at Pentonville Prison in London for a killing he had waited twenty-one years to carry out. That much of the Udham Singh story, most people already know. What gets lost — in folk songs, in film posters, in the handful of paragraphs textbooks devote to him — is everyone he was before that morning: an orphan, a soldier, a factory hand, an actor, a husband, and a committed revolutionary with a political vision far wider than a single act of retribution. This distin