An assassination which shook the British Empire
A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassinated Michael O’Dwyer on 13th March, 1940, the man at the helm of affairs in Punjab, April 1919 to avenge the lost lives of his beloved brethren.
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Vicky Kaushal Shaun Scott Stephen Hogan Amol Parashar Kirsty Averton Banita Sandhu Andrew Havill Sam Redford Albrekht Tsander Tim Berrington Mark Lingwood Simon Weir Tim Hudson Richard Glover Nicholas Gecks Ritesh Shah Jogi Malang Kuljeet Singh Tushar Sheetal Singhal Andrei Tolshin Sarfaraz Alam Safu Sergei Mazurenko
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