Prominent Martyrs Of India's Freedom Struggle

RAUT BAJI (1925 to 1938 )
Raut Baji was born as the son of Shri Hari Raut, a boatman on 1925 at Nilkantha­pur, Distt. Dhenkanal, of Orissa. On the night of October 10, 1938 when officials of the state police asked him to take them across the Brahmini river he refused saying that they were the enemy of the people. The twelve-year-old boy was brutalized leaving a fracture in his skull. However Baji raised an alarm and warned the villagers about the arrival of the soldiers before he took his last breath. Several villagers were killed in firing by the troops however the bravery and patriotism shown by the young boy has become the theme for the famous Oriya poem "Boatman" by Sachi Routray.
 

UDHAM SINGH (1919 to 1940)
Udham Singh who was a resident of Amritsar, Punjab; was deeply shocked at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar, on April 13, 1919. After the death of his parents he was brought up in an orphanage and took vow to revenge against the injustice and brutal behavior of the British police done towards his countrymen. This motive made him to go to England and join for an Engineering course in London. Singh got a revolver and ammunition on March 13, 1940, to kill Sir Michael O'Dyer (who was the Governor of Punjab when the Jallianwala Bagh tragedy took place) at a meeting of the Royal Central Asian Society and the East India Association in the Caxton Hall, London. He was arrested and tried for murder before sentencing to death in London on June 12, 1940.