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by Anita Anand

Indian Civil Service (ICS), 20–1, 22, 42

  Indian National Congress, 41, 63, 117, 290

  name on final report of, 140

  Indian Political Intelligence (IPI), 13, 220, 226, 230, 238, 251, 279, 293, 302

  Indian Railways, 225

  Indian Sociologist, 47

  Indian Workers Association (IWA), 230–1, 252

  Indira Gandhi, 311, 312

  Indo-Bolshevik, 181

  Innes, Michael, 248

  innocent men killed, 116, 118–19

  IRA, 153–4, 238

  Irish Republican Brotherhood, 20

  Iron Age, 56

  Irving, Miles, 74, 79–81, 82–3, 86, 91, 115–16

  Isemonger, F. C., 165

  Ishwar Das Anand, 94–7, 101–3, 107

  Ishwar Kaur, 124

  Jacob, Field Mshl Sir Claud, 271

  Jaggan Nath, 125

  Jahal Singh, 303

  Jalapa, SS , 182, 183, 184

  Jallianwala Bagh, 1–2, 13, 99–100, 102, 104–6, 128, 134, 148, 154, 166, 180, 185, 186, 190, 233, 279, 288, 308, 309

  ceasefire after, 107

  macabre echo from, 266

  and martial law, 120

  news reaches O’Dwyer concerning, 115

  news spreads further from, 117

  and other exits, 116

  and Udham Singh’s statue, 313

  Jatka, 204

  Jawaharlal Nehru, 41, 290, 291, 293, 311

  Jawand Singh, 166, 167–8

  Jeffreys, Superintendent, 73

  jihad, 59

  Jiwa Singh, 60, 132, 134, 135

  Johnson, Lt Col. Frank, 124

  Johnson-Reed Act, 174

  Jones, Det. Sgt Sidney, 270–2, 273–4

  and Udham’s pocket contents, 272

  Kala Bagh, 94, 96

  Kamboj, low caste, 31

  Karachi, 23, 183

  Karnal, 56

  Kartar Singh Sarabha, 49

  Kasur, punishments at, 123

  Katra Sher Singh Bazaar, 189

  Kell, Gen. Sir Vernon (‘K’), 250, 285, 305

  Khair-Ud-D in Teli, 106

  Khalsa Diwan, 170, 252

  Kheda, 63–4

  Kipling, Rudyard, 26–7, 223

  Kitchener, Lord, 188, 250

  Kitchin, A. J. W., 91, 117

  Kitchlew, Dr Saifuddin, 72, 77, 81–2, 100

  arrested, 79

  described as troublemaker, 80

  Korda, Alexander, 223–4

  Korda, Zoltan, 224

  Krishna Menon, Vengalil Krishnan, 290–3, 305, 306, 308

  Kucha Kaurianwala, 123–4, 125

  and street punishment, 124–6

  ‘Kumari’, 297–300

  Kundan Kaur, 232

  Labhu Ram, 107

  Labor Appropriation Act, 161

  Lahore, 309

  described, 23–4

  and heartened strikers, 75

  Irvin writes to, 80

  news spreads to, 86, 115

  O’Dwyer, M., arrives at, 23

  status of, under threat, 56

  and travel, 74

  Lala Gonda Mal, 125

  Lala Kanhyalal Bhatia, 100–1

  Lala Megha Mal, 125

  Lala Sunder, 108

  Lallo, 168

  Lamington, Lord, 259, 262, 263, 291, 308

  Land Colonisation Bill, 128

  Laski, Harold, 179

  Lawrence Gardens, 23, 46

  Lawrence, John, 129

  birth of, 20–1

  death of, 23

  schoolboy’s hero, 20–1

  Lawrence, Dr M. R., 265

  Lawrence, Dr T. E., 265

  League Against Imperialism, 227

  Lenin, Vladimir, 163, 214

  Leviathan, SS , 171

  Lindsay Parkinson and Co., 244–5

  Lloyd, Sir George, 69

  Lloyd George, David, 154

  London School of Economics, 179

  Long Beach, Udham moves to, 168–9

  ‘Long Live Gandhi’, 80

  ‘Long live the Hindu–Muslim brotherhood’, 80

  low- and high-castes, 31

  Ludhiana, 56

  ‘Lunatic Line’, 132

  ‘Lupe’, Josefina Torres, 167–8, 169, 172, 176, 181, 182, 195, 201, 299, 300

  McAlpine, Sir Robert, 244

  McCardie, Mr Justice, 179

  McClure, G. B., 305

  Mackay (dog), 260

  Mackinnon, Dr Grace, 265

  MacLagan, Sir Edward Douglas, 130

  McRae, Lt Col. H., 122–3

  Madame Nur Jehan, 189, 190, 191, 207

  Madan Mouhau, 105

  Madhan Lal Dhingra, 48

  Maffey, John, 64

  Maharajah Duleep Singh, 203, 206

  Maharajah Ranjit Singh, 56

  Maharajah Sayyaji Rao III , 40–1

  Mahratta Brahmin, 52–3

  Manjit Singh Kassid, 127, 202–6

  passim, 207, 208, 216–17

  Mao Zedong, 163

  Maqbool Mahmood, 83–4

  Martyr’s Memorial in Amritsar, 2

  Mather, 193 (see also Udham Singh)

  Udham identifies as, 173

  Maude, Lt Gen. Sir Stanley, 59

  Mazbhis, 58

  Mazzini, Giuseppe, 175

  Mela Singh, 57, 60

  Mesopotamia, 58–9, 60

  Metropolitan Police, 235, 248, 271, 317

  Mian Feroz Din, 82

  Mian Mir, 57–8

  Mianwali Jail, 197–8

  Michigan University, 151–2, 156, 160–1

  MI5, 13, 49, 217, 224, 225, 226, 238

  motto of, 250

  Mill, John Stuart, 63

  Milner, Alfred, 22

  Minchin, Capt., 118

  Minto, Lord, 42

  decision to reunify, 42

  Mohamed Ismail, 106

  Mohammed Shariff, 107

  Mohan Lal (1), 107

  Mohan Lal (2), 125

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 178

  Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, 244

  Montague, Sir Edwin, 69, 121, 136, 139, 140, 142, 144–5

  Montgomery, 56

  Mool Chand, 241–2, 247–8

  Morley-Minto reforms, 52

  Morning Post, 147

  Mosley Blackshirts, 218–19

  Mosley, Oswald, 210–11

  Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 309

  Mughal Empire, 25

  Mukta Singh, 36, 55

  Multan jail, 197

  Murad Ali, 192

  Murli Mal, 107

  Muslim, Sikhus, Hindu communities, 80

  musti, 96

  Nand Lala (1), 107

  Nand Lala (2), 125, 205

  Narain Kaur, 31–2

  death of, 32

  Nath, 125

  Nathu Kamboj, 106

  National Herald, 291

  National Origins Act, 174

  Nayyar and Sons, 209–10

  Nazir Singh Mattu, 228–31

  New Delhi, 309

  New Scotland Yard, report of, 222–3

  New York Times, 68, 311

  Nicol, p. H., 188

  Nikmu Mal Girdhari, 107

  Nilowal, 33

  nizams, 38

  O’Dwyer, Eunice Jr, 38

  O’Dwyer, Eunice Sr, 28–9, 38, 257, 271, 295

  O’Dwyer, Geoffrey, 148

  O’Dwyer, Ivon, 148

  O’Dwyer, Jack, 39, 111, 249, 294–5

  O’Dwyer, John Chevalier, see O’Dwyer, Jack

  O’Dwyer, John Snr, 19–20, 111

  stroke and death suffered by, 22, 149–50

  O’Dwyer, Margaret, 19

  O’Dwyer, Sir Michael, 177–81, 208, 215 (see also Udham Singh)

  ACS passing among, 22

  among brothers and sisters siblings, 19

  ancestral roots of, 18

  and angry missives to London from, 67

  and Basanta, 51

  BBC report on, 275–6

  beco
mes viceroy of India, 21

  birth of, 18

  and boundary dispute, 38

  and building of gallows, 120

  burial of, 295

  celebrity status of, 177

  Commission hated by, 137–8

  critics of, 121

  and debt of gratitude, 66

  and Defence of India Act, 63

  dogged critics of, 121

  Dyer needs support from, 117

  and Dyer’s funeral, 188–9

  early school of, 20

  editors attract, 217–18

  executions on watch of, 70

  and family hunger, lack of, 19

  fastidious habits of, 51–2

  first assignment of, 27

  giving no game away by, 43

  goes missing from home, 257–8

  home fired into, 22

  ICS passed by, 21

  and immediate post-death, 263–7

  and India articles, 218

  and Indian extremists in

  California, 294

  ‘Irish to the backbone’, 18

  knighted, 49

  leaves for India for, 23

  leaves India temporarily, and returns, 28–9

  and martial law, 120

  memoirs of, 85, 118

  in Montgomery, 56

  and mutiny, 76, 118

  new lieutenant governor, 43, 44

  news reaches, 115

  nickname of, 4

  office extension for, 22

  plans made by, 118

  post-to-post moves by, 28

  praise from, 1

  prepared to sue, 178–9

  and Punjab, 77

  and Punjabis, 56

  and Punjab’s loyalty, 68

  reintroduction to London, 136

  retired, 130

  sanitised picture from, 118

  Satyapal, Kitchlew arrested by, 79

  as sentimental man, 18

  Singh shoots, 3

  as social creature, 39–40

  as son of Ireland, 18

  and sound of unrest, 86

  Spoor on, 143

  stalwart defender of Raj, 12

  thin trips with, 117

  and tribal honour, 56

  trying month for, 67

  Udham gets address of, 247

  Udham in final proximity with, 260–3

  Udham shoots, 263–7

  and Udham’s death threat, 240, 251

  wider view of justice by, 70

  worst fears of, 22

  Old Maid, The, 258

  Ottoman Empire, 58, 61, 214

  Paine, Thomas, 63

  Pakistan, 309

  Palmer, Horace, 225–6

  Palmer, Irene/Eileen, 224–7, 236

  Pandry, Mr, 282

  Pandurang Sadashiv Khankhoje, 163, 164

  Patriot, 177

  Pentonville Prison (‘The Ville’), 10–17, 70, 307

  Perkins, Roger, 111–12

  Peter Singh, 252–3

  Petrie, Sir David, 163

  Phoenix Park, Dublin, 21

  Pierrepoint, Albert, 9–12, 15–16

  Britain’s longest-serving hangman, 16

  Pierrepoint, Tom, 15

  Pilbad, 31

  Pilditch, Denys, 279–80

  Poland, 244

  ‘Praise to the Mother’, 134

  Pratap Singh Kairon, 166

  Princip, Gavrilo, 53

  Prison and Prosecution services, 13

  Pritam Singh, 182–3, 193, 208

  American legal entry by, 162

  in civil engineering department, 172

  and El Paso, 160, 161

  in Hindustan Club, 172

  looks of, 151

  Mexico reached by, 159

  and Michigan, 160

  no grudge from, 162

  and paper failures, 155

  reporters on story of, 161

  Riggs helps, 160–1

  Udham looks after, 153

  Udham meets, 151

  and Udham’s assurance, 162

  worse plight of, 161

  and YMCA, 154, 155

  Proud Valley, The, 256

  punitive taxation in India, 24

  Punjab, 309–10

  canal system of, 33

  continuing brutality in, 122–3

  and foreign war, 54

  half army drawn from, 54

  and illegal handbills, 73–4

  men’s execution on O’Dwyer’s watch, 70

  new governor of, 45

  and press-ganging, 54

  and promises of land, 54

  receptive audience from, 71

  as ‘second city’, 56

  slow influx of, 210

  spreading actions in, 75

  traditional clothing, 233i

  trickle into America, 158

  and UK tommies, 122

  Rabindranath Tagore, 134

  Radcliffe, Cyril, 309

  Radcliffe Line, 309

  Rai Sahib, 57

  Raj:

  Diwan hates, 234

  and Gandhi’s nightmare, 71

  and O’Dwyer killing, 277, 291

  penal code of, 198

  ships, 23

  supreme reign of, 2

  vital importance of, 52

  wartime powers of, 70

  Ram Bagh, 35, 91, 99, 107, 191

  Ram Chandra, 68

  Ram Naumi, 79–80

  Ram Singh, 68

  Ramdasia, 58

  Ramji Dass Sunami, 127

  Ranjit Singh, 26, 54, 56

  Rappe, Virginia, 169

  Rash Behari Bose, 50

  Ratan Devi, 108–9

  Rattan Singh, 180

  Ravi, 75

  Rehill, Supt John, 105

  Reinhold, Col. Carl Henry, 265, 266

  Representation of the People Act (RPA), 144–5

  Reuters, 288–9

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 244

  Richards, Col. Edward, 188

  Richards, Harry Wyndham, 306

  Riches, Claude Wyndham Harry, 264–5

  Richie, Claud Wyndham Harry, 261

  Riders of the Sarhad (Dyer), 148

  Riggs, Prof. Henry Earl, 155–6, 160–1

  Ripley, Tom, 4

  Robeson, Paul, 256–7

  Rosina, 175

  Rothermere, Viscount, 218

  Rowlatt Act, 70, 74, 75, 100

  Roy, Dr, 300

  Roy, M. N., 163

  Royal Albert Hall, 258

  Royal Central Asian Society, 259

  Royal Irish Constabulary, 153

  Russell, Bertrand, 290

  Sabu, 224

  Salaria, Mr, 83

  Sanger, Margaret, 226

  Sanghoi, 75

  Sankaran Nair, Sir, 178–80

  Santa Fe Railroad, 164

  Santi Gosh, 297

  Santidas Khushiram Kirpalani, 148–9

  Sarajevo, 53

  Sardar Sahibzada Sultan Ahmad Khan, 137–8, 205

  sarkar, 75, 120

  satyagraha, 71–2, 74

  Satyapal, Dr, 72, 77, 81–2, 100

  arrested, 79

  described as troublemaker, 80

  Saunders, Asst Supt John, 198, 199

  Savar Ali Shah, 189–90, 191, 192

  Scott, James A., 198–9

  Scott, Mr, 84

  ‘Scramble for Africa’, 131

  Second World Congress, 163

  Second World War: post-war cost of, 309

  run-up to, 4

  Secret Intelligence Service (SIS ), 13

  sepoys, 25–6

  Shaheed Udham Singh Arts College, 313

  Shahpur, 28

  Shalimar Gardens, 26

  Shankar Dayal Sharma, 310–11

  Sher Singh, see Udham Singh

  Sherwood, Marcella, 85

  Sherwood, Miss, 123, 125

  Shiv Singh Johal, 231, 235, 285, 300, 302, 308

  Shiv Singh Jouhl , 235, 292, 302

  Shyamaji Kri
shnavarma, 47, 48

  ‘Sikh Comintern’, 163, 180

  Sikh Gurdwara, UK’s first, 154–5

  Sikh Temple, California, 292, 297, 300

  Sikhs:

  added religious significance for, 96

  fighting with British, 234

  and long hair, 204, 213

  most holy shrine of, 34

  and police beatings, 233–4

  and samadhi, 26

  in US, 170, 232

  vegetarianism of, 204

  Sikhs, Hindu, Muslim communities, 80

  Silver, Cecil, 237–40, 243, 279, 288

  Simon Commission, 198

  Singapore, and mutiny, 67

  Sinsinawa, SS , 181

  Sitaram Acharya, 133

  Slattery, J., 165

  Slee, Maj. Reginald Alfred, 261, 262, 265, 306

  Sohan Lal, 107

  Sohan Singh, 35

  Sohan Singh Bhakna, 49

  Sohan Singh, 107

  Sohne Khan, 191–2

  Southampton, 244

  Soviet Russia, 163, 214, 220

  Special Branch, 13

  Special Branch (SB), UK, 48

  Spectator, The, 218

  Spitfires, 245

  Spoor, Benjamin Charles, 143

  Stalin, Joseph, 214, 244

  Stevens, Charles Geoffrey Buckland, 297

  Stewart, Mr, 84

  Stockton, 170

  Sudagar Singh, 166, 168

  Sudetenland, 243

  Suhrawardy, Sir Hasan, 257

  Sunam, 32–3, 35, 60, 202, 203, 204, 206, 208

  and smuggling guns, 135

  Udham returns to, 133–4

  Sundar Singh, 107

  Suniti Choudhury, 297

  Supermarine, 245

  Surat Ali, 252, 285, 292

  Sutherland, Sir William, 144

  swadeshi, 42

  Swain, Det. Insp. John, 273–4, 284, 285

  Sykes, Brig. Gen. Sir Percy, 259, 260, 275, 306

  Tamil Nadu, 132

  Tampico, 159–60

  Tara Singh (1), 107

  Tara Singh (2), 190–1, 192, 194, 207

  Tehal Singh, 31–2, 33–5, 313

  children raised by, 32–4

  Teja Singh, 164

  Three Works Company, 61

  Times, 140–1

  Transvaal, 47

  Trotsky, Leon, 164

  Turkey, 214

  Tutin, Constance, 141

  Udham Singh (see also O’Dwyer, Michael):

  admits in UK to work for people in India, 245

  at Amritsar, 190

  and Andrews, 130–1

  arsenal of, 180, 183, 194–5

  ashes of, distributed, 312–13

  Banta Singh’s friendship with, 252

  becoming more US, 167

  better paying job for, 167

  Bhagat beguiles, 200–1

  birth of, 32

  and bookshops, 128

  Brazil name of, 182, 184, 192

  to British gallows, 5, 9–10, 12–16

  British intelligence documents on, 111

  to Canon Row police station, 274

  carpentry skills of, 129

  cash and arms required for Europe visit, 208

  cash desperation of, 240

  city-to-city moves by, 129–30

  Claremont reached by, 164

  clemency petition on, 308

  and collection plate, 228

  declared unfit, 60

  disappearance of, 132

  disgraced self, 60

 

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