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Tehsil Sunam, District Sangrur, Punjab, Bharat
Sunam is a city and a municipality in Sangrur district in the Indian state of Punjab. Sunam is administrative headquarter of Sunam Tehsil.
As of 2001 India census, Sunam had a population of 51,024. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Sunam has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 66%, and female literacy is 57%. In Sunam, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Udham Singh (Punjabi: ਉਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ, udham singh; December 26, 1899 – July 31, 1940), born Sher Singh and also known as Ram Mohammed Singh Azad, symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism. Singh was a Sikh Punjabi Marxist and militant nationalist. Considered one of the best-known of the more extremist revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle, he is also sometimes referred to as Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh (the expression "Shaheed-i-Azam" means "king of martyrs"). Along with Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh is also believed to be one of the earliest Marxists/Bolsheviks in India. Whilst living in England in 1940, Singh shot dead Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who had been Governor of the Punjab during the Amritsar Massacre, when General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer's ordered British troops to fire on unarmed Indian protesters in Punjab, mostly Sikhs. Sher Singh was born in Sunam in the Sangrur district of Punjab to a farming family headed by Sardar Tehal Singh (known as Chuhar Singh before taking the Amrit). Udham Singh belonged to Jammu clan of Kamboj lineage.[2] Sardar Tehal Singh was at that time working as a watchman on a railway crossing in the neighbouring village of Upall. Sher Singh's mother died in 1901. His father followed in 1907.
With the help of Bhai Kishan Singh Ragi, both Sher Singh and his elder brother, Mukta Singh, were admitted to the Central Khalsa Orphanage Pultighar in Amritsar on October 24, 1907. They were administered the Sikh initiatory rites at the orphanage and received new names: Sher Singh became Udham Singh, and Mukta Singh became Sadhu Singh. Sadhu Singh died in 1917, which came as a great shock to his brother. While at orphanage, Udham Singh was trained in various arts and crafts. He passed his matriculation examination in 1918 and left the orphanage in 1919
Sunam is a city and a municipality in Sangrur district in the Indian state of Punjab. Sunam is administrative headquarter of Sunam Tehsil.
As of 2001 India census, Sunam had a population of 51,024. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Sunam has an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 66%, and female literacy is 57%. In Sunam, 13% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Udham Singh (Punjabi: ਉਧਮ ਸਿੰਘ, udham singh; December 26, 1899 – July 31, 1940), born Sher Singh and also known as Ram Mohammed Singh Azad, symbolizing the unification of the three major religions of India: Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism. Singh was a Sikh Punjabi Marxist and militant nationalist. Considered one of the best-known of the more extremist revolutionaries of the Indian freedom struggle, he is also sometimes referred to as Shaheed-i-Azam Sardar Udham Singh (the expression "Shaheed-i-Azam" means "king of martyrs"). Along with Bhagat Singh, Udham Singh is also believed to be one of the earliest Marxists/Bolsheviks in India. Whilst living in England in 1940, Singh shot dead Sir Michael O'Dwyer, who had been Governor of the Punjab during the Amritsar Massacre, when General Reginald Edward Harry Dyer's ordered British troops to fire on unarmed Indian protesters in Punjab, mostly Sikhs. Sher Singh was born in Sunam in the Sangrur district of Punjab to a farming family headed by Sardar Tehal Singh (known as Chuhar Singh before taking the Amrit). Udham Singh belonged to Jammu clan of Kamboj lineage.[2] Sardar Tehal Singh was at that time working as a watchman on a railway crossing in the neighbouring village of Upall. Sher Singh's mother died in 1901. His father followed in 1907.
With the help of Bhai Kishan Singh Ragi, both Sher Singh and his elder brother, Mukta Singh, were admitted to the Central Khalsa Orphanage Pultighar in Amritsar on October 24, 1907. They were administered the Sikh initiatory rites at the orphanage and received new names: Sher Singh became Udham Singh, and Mukta Singh became Sadhu Singh. Sadhu Singh died in 1917, which came as a great shock to his brother. While at orphanage, Udham Singh was trained in various arts and crafts. He passed his matriculation examination in 1918 and left the orphanage in 1919
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunam
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 30°7'2"N 75°49'14"E
- Bathinda 91 km
- Ludhiana 93 km
- Sirsa 100 km
- Jalandhar 143 km
- Firozpur 152 km
- Amritsar 208 km
- Pakpattan 239 km
- Lahore 243 km
- Bahawalnagar 251 km
- Shaikhupura 255 km
- Preet Colony 0.7 km
- Dana Mandi 1.1 km
- Suncity 1.1 km
- SUS Govt. College 1.4 km
- SUS ITI, Sunam 2.3 km
- Sitasar 3 km
- Electricity Grid 4.1 km
- Rampura 4.9 km
- Sunam Tehsil 6.5 km
- Lehra Tehsil 22 km
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