List of Indian independence activists

This is a listing of people who campaigned against or are considered to have campaigned against colonial rule on the Indian sub-continent.

The Indian independence movement consisted of efforts by individuals and organizations from a wide spectrum of philosophies to obtain political independence from British, French and Portuguese rule through the use of a variety of methods.

Post-Independence, "Freedom fighter" is an officially-recognised category by the Indian government covering those who took part in the movement; people in this category (can also include dependant family members)^[1] get pensions and other benefits like special railway counters.^[2]

Activists[edit]

Name	Birth	Death	Activity	Source
Maruthanayagam	1725	1764	Fought with British troops on Madurai Fort in 1764
Puli Thevar	1715	1767	Involved in a vendetta with the Nawab of Arcot who was supported by the British. Later rebelled against the British in the late 1750s and early 1760s
Maruthu Pandiyar	1748 & 1753	1801	First to issue a proclamation of independence from the colonial British rule from Trichy Thiruvarangam Temple, Tamil Nadu
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai	1872	1936	He launched the first indigenous Indian shipping service between Tuticorin and Colombo with the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company, competing against British ships
Subramania Bharati	1882	1921	wrote many fiery songs kindling patriotism and nationalism during Indian Independence movement
Alluri Sitarama Raju	1897	1924	Leader of the Rampa Rebellion of 1922-1924
Bhagat Singh	1907	1931	Worked with several revolutionary organisations and became prominent in the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)
Shambhu Dutt Sharma	1918	2016	Joined quit India movement in 1942. Hon. General Secretary of GSB (Gandhian Satyagraha Brigade). Founder of Transparency International India. Sharma's team was known as Gandhian Seva Brigade. Against corruption in present day India
Tanguturi Prakasam	1872	1957	Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu (23 August 1872 – 20 May 1957) was an Indian politician and freedom fighter, chief minister of the Madras Presidency, and subsequently became the first chief minister of the new Andhra state, created by the partition of Madras State along linguistic lines. He was also known as Andhra Kesari (Lion of Andhra). The Andhra Pradesh government issued G.O on 10 August 2014 declaring his birth anniversary a state festival.
Khudiram Bose	1889	1908	The Muzaffarpur killing, One of the youngest revolutionaries in the India. At the time of his hanging, he was 18 years, 8 months 8 days old
Chandra Shekhar Azad	1906	1931	23 July 1906 – 27 February 1931), popularly known as Azad ("The Free"), was an Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) after the death of its founder, Ram Prasad Bismil, and three other prominent party leaders, Roshan Singh, Rajendra Nath Lahiri and Ashfaqulla Khan.
Chittaranjan Das	1869	1925	founder of Swaraj party in Bengal, leader in Non-cooperation Movement from Bengal
Komaram Bheem	1901	1940	Komaram Bheem (22 October 1901 – 8 October 1940) was a tribal leader who fought against the Asaf Jahi Dynasty for the liberation of Hyderabad. Komaram Bheem openly fought against the ruling Nizam government in a guerrilla campaign. He defied courts, laws, and any other form of Nizam authority, living off the sustenance of the forest. He took up arms against Nizam Nawab's soldiers, and fought Babi Jhari until his last breath. His life history was written originally by the comrade leader of Telangana Rebellion, Puchalapalli Sundariah.
Ram Prasad Bismil	1897	1927	Kakori conspiracy
Udham Singh	1899	1940	Shooting in Caxton Hall
Hemu Kalani	1923	1943	Sabotage of railway track
Ashfaqulla Khan	1900	1927	Kakori conspiracy
Sachindra Bakshi	1904	1984	Kakori conspiracy
Manmath Nath Gupta	1908	2000	Kakori conspiracy
Vasudev Balwant Phadke	1845	1883	Deccan Rebellion
Anant Laxman Kanhere	1891	1910	Shooting of British officer Jackson
Vanchinathan	1886	1911	Shooting of British Collector/District Magistrate Robert William Escourt Ashe
Krishnaji Gopal Karve	1887	1910	Shooting of British officer Jackson
Ganesh Damodar Savarkar	1879	1945	Armed movement against the British
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar	1883	1966	Father of Hindu Nationalism Was jailed at Cellular Jail in 1911
Bagha Jatin	1879	1915	The Howrah-Sibpur conspiracy case, Indo-German Conspiracy
Batukeshwar Dutt	1910	1965	Central Assembly Bomb Case 1929
Sukhdev Thapar	1907	1931	Central Assembly Bomb Case 1929
Shivaram Rajguru	1908	1931	Murder of a British police officer J. P. Saunders
Roshan Singh	1892	1927	Kakori conspiracy, Bamrauli Action
Pritilata Waddedar	1911	1932	Pahartali European Club attack
Jatindra Nath Das	1904	1929	Hunger strike and Lahore conspiracy case
Durgawati Devi	1907	1999	Running the bomb factory 'Himalayan Toilets'
Bhagwati Charan Vohra	1904	1930	Philosophy of the Bomb
Madan Lal Dhingra	1883	1909	Assassination of Curzon Wyllie
Alluri Sitarama Raju	1897	1924	Rampa Rebellion of 1922
Kushal Konwar	1905	1943	Train sabotage at Sarupathar
Surya Sen	1894	1934	President of Indian National Congress Chittagong Branch, mastermind of Chittagong armoury raid
Ananta Singh	1903	1979	Chittagong armoury raid
Ganesh Ghosh	1900	1994	Chittagong armoury raid
Sri Aurobindo	1872	1950	Alipore bomb case
Rash Behari Bose	1886	1945	Indian National Army
Ubaidullah Sindhi	1872	1944	Silk Letter Conspiracy
Lokenath Bal	1908	1964	Chittagong armoury raid
Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee	1895	1969	Kakori conspiracy
Baikuntha Shukla	1907	1934	Assassination of Phanindra Nath Ghosh, a government Approver
Ambika Chakrabarty	1892	1962	Chittagong armoury raid
Badal Gupta	1912	1930	Attack at Writers Building
Dinesh Gupta	1911	1931	Attack at Writers Building
Benoy Basu	1908	1930	Attack at Writers Building
Rajendra Lahiri	1901	1927	Kakori conspiracy
Barindra Kumar Ghosh	1880	1959	Alipore bomb case
Prafulla Chaki	1888	1908	The Muzaffarpur killing
Ullaskar Dutta	1885	1965	Alipore bomb case
Bhupendra Kumar Datta	1892	1979	Member of Anushilan Samiti
Ramesh Chandra Jha	1925	1994	Sugauli police station robbery
Hemchandra Kanungo	1871	1951	Alipore bomb case
Basawon Singh (Sinha)	1909	1989	Lahore conspiracy case
Bhavabhushan Mitra	1881	1970	Ghadar Mutiny
Bina Das	1911	1986	Attempted to assassinate the Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson
Kalpana Datta	1913	1995	Indian Independence Movement, also part of the Chittagong armoury raid planning
Kartar Singh Sarabha	1896	1915	Most famous accused in the Lahore conspiracy trial
Shyamji Krishna Varma	1857	1930	Founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.
Subhas Chandra Bose	1897	1945	Founder of the Indian National Army. He also collaborated with the Nazis.
Binod Bihari Chowdhury	1911	2013	Chittagong armoury raid
Bhupendranath Datta	1880	1961	Indo-German Conspiracy, member of Anushilan Samiti
Amarendranath Chatterjee	1880	1957	Indo-German Conspiracy
Atulkrishna Ghosh	1890	1966	Indo-German Conspiracy
Subodh Roy	1916	2006	Chittagong armoury raid, Tebhaga movement
Maulvi Liaquat Ali	1812	1892	Captured Khusro Bagh in Allahabad and declared "independence" of India
Gopaldas Mavji Purecha Als. Manvendranath Azad	1914	1982	Pioneering the Non-Cooperation Movement and Quit India Moment,1942 Planted Bomb in Military Camp at Pune,Arrested by British Police and were convicted by court
Asaf Ali	1888	1953	Indian national movement
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	1869	1948	Was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is also known The Father of The Nation
Jawahar Lal Nehru	1889	1964	First prime minister of India, a paramount leader of Indian independence under the tutelage of M.K.Gandhi
S. Satyamurti	1887	1943	Mayor of Madras, President of the Madras District Congress Party Committee, Advocate of the High Court of Madras, Senior Advocate of the Federal Court of India, Deputy leader of the Congress party, Member of the Indian Legislative Assembly	^[3]
Shaukat Ali	1873	1938	He had taken birth in 1873 in Rampur state which is now famous city of Uttar Pradesh. He had completed his education from Aligarh Muslim University.Shaukat Ali served in the civil service of the United Provinces of Oudh and Agra from 1896 to 1913 for 17 years in British India. Maulana ,"Shaukat Ali", his brother "Mohammad Ali" and their mother "Bi Amman", has played a incredible role in the freedom movement of India against the British Imperialism.These brave freedom fighters were unmitigated champions of Hindu-Muslim unity who endorsed the Hindus and the Muslims to fight together in the struggle for independence from the British forgetting their religious feelings and thinking only they are Indians,they were the ambassadors of Hindu-Muslim Unity.They were arrested and imprisoned from 1921 to 1923 for his support to Mahatma Gandhi and the Indian National Congress during the Non-Cooperation Movement (1919–1922).^[4]
Sushila Chain Trehan	1923	2011	Leading member of Arya Samaj who fought for women's rights

References[edit]

Jump up^ PTI (2016-08-18). "Pension of freedom fighters hiked by Rs 5,000". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2017-02-23.
Jump up^ Lisa Mitchell (2009). Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue. Indiana University Press. p. 193. ISBN 0-253-35301-7.
Jump up^ S, SATYAMURTI; Indian Political Leader, 56, Long Active in Civil Disobedience, NYTimes (subscription required)
Jump up^ Brief History of Shaukat Ali,[1], [2]

[1] Jump up^ PTI (2016-08-18). "Pension of freedom fighters hiked by Rs 5,000". The Hindu Business Line. Retrieved 2017-02-23.

[Mitchell2009-2] Jump up^ Lisa Mitchell (2009). Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue. Indiana University Press. p. 193. ISBN 0-253-35301-7.

[3] Jump up^ S, SATYAMURTI; Indian Political Leader, 56, Long Active in Civil Disobedience, NYTimes (subscription required)

[4] Jump up^ Brief History of Shaukat Ali,[1], [2]

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