List of Indian independence activists
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This is a listing of people who campaigned against or are considered to have campaigned against foreign domination and cultural imposition on the Indian sub-continent. In India and the rest of South Asia such individuals are often referred to as freedom fighters. The Indian Independence Movement consisted of efforts by Indians to obtain political independence from British, French and Portuguese rule; it involved a wide spectrum of Indian political organizations, philosophies, and rebellions.[1][2]
Indian Renaissance
- Raja Ram Mohan Roy
- Swami Dayanand Saraswati
- Sri Aurobindo
- Allama Iqbal
- Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
- Ramakrishna
- Ramakrishna Mission
- Brahmo Samaj
- Arya Samaj
- Prarthana Samaj
- Sir Ganesh Dutt
- Swami Sahajanand Saraswati
- Swami Vivekananda
- Revolt of Halagaliya Bedaru
Political organizations
- Indian National Congress
- Khudai Khidmatgar
- All India Muslim League
- Khaksar Tehrik
- Gadar Party
- Swaraj Party
- All India Kisan Sabha
- Anushilan Samiti
- Jugantar
- Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
- Bengal Volunteers
- Shiromani Akali Dal
- Unionist Muslim League
- Hindu Mahasabha
- Communist Party of India
- All India Forward Bloc
- Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
- Indian Liberal Party
Leaders from Haryana
| Name | Place | Deeds |
|---|---|---|
| Banarsi Das Gupta | Bhiwani | Formed Praja Mandal in Jind State to fight against British Rule
and went to jail many times. Later become Chief Minister of Haryana |
| Bhagwat Dayal Sharma | Beri, Haryana | Involved in Peeli Kothi Bomb Blasting with Late Aruna Asaf Ali.
Fought against the British and, thus, was jailed many times. Later become the first Chief Minister of Haryana. |
Leaders from Bengal and Bengal Presidency, The Assam Province or Assam Valley and rest of Northeastern India
| Name | Place | Deeds |
|---|---|---|
| Subhas Chandra Bose | (Bengal Presidency) | formed 'Azad Hind Fauj" or Indian National Army |
| Tarun Ram Phukan | Assam | |
| Gopinath Bardoloi | Assam | |
| Nabin Chandra Bardoloi | Assam | |
| Ambikagiri Raychoudhury | Assam | |
| Tara Prasad Barooah[3][4] | Assam | |
| Titumir (Sayyid Mir Nisar Ali) | ||
| Bipin Chandra Pal | ||
| Chittaranjan Das | ||
| Maulana Abul Kalam Azad | ||
| A. K. Fazlul Huq | ||
| Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani | ||
| Rabindranath Tagore | ||
| Kazi Nazrul Islam | ||
| Surya Sen | ||
| Pritilata Waddedar | ||
| Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed | ||
| Bankim Chandra Chatterjee | ||
| Benoy Basu | ||
| Badal Gupta | ||
| Dinesh Gupta | ||
| 'Khudiram Bose | ||
| Prafulla Chaki | ||
| Bagha Jatin | ||
| Barin Ghosh | ||
| Rash Behari Bose | ||
| Aurobindo Ghosh | ||
| Surendranath Banerjee | ||
| Sarat Chandra Bose | ||
| Bhupendra Nath Datta | ||
| Pulin Behari Das | ||
| Taraknath Das | ||
| Bholaram das[5] | Jailed for participating in a 1930 protest against British rule.
In 1945, he joined the Congress that led India's drive for independence. | |
| Atulkrishna Ghosh | ||
| Ullaskar Dutta |
Leaders from North, United Provinces, Bihar and Central India
Leaders from Punjab and Northwest India
Leaders from Punjab and Northwest India are
| Name | Place | Deeds |
|---|---|---|
| Allama Iqbal | Punjab | |
| Pandit Amir Chand Bombwal | Punjab | |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Punjab | |
| Sardul Singh Caveeshar | Punjab | |
| Sheikh Abdullah | Punjab | |
| Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan | Punjab | |
| King Rao Tula Ram of Rewari[7] | ||
| Baba Gurdit Singh | Punjab | |
| Rae Ahmed Nawaz Khan Kharal | Punjab | |
| Baba Kharak Singh[8] | Punjab | |
| Baldev Singh | Punjab | |
| Bhagat Singh | Punjab | |
| Bhai Balmukund | Punjab | |
| Bhai Parmanand | Punjab | |
| Bhai Ram Singh | Punjab | |
| Giani Kesar Singh[9] | Punjab | He served as a Civil Administrator of the Indian National Army
(from 1943 to 1945) |
| Kartar Singh Sarabha | Punjab | |
| Kartar Singh Jhabbar | Punjab | |
| Mahavarat Vidyalankar | Punjab | |
| Madan Lal Dhingra | Punjab | Mangal Sain Wadhwa |
| Tej Bahadur Sapru | Punjab | |
| Sardul Singh Caveeshar | Punjab | |
| Sewa Singh Thikriwala[10] | Punjab | |
| Shivaram Rajguru | Punjab | |
| Sikander Hyat Khan | Punjab | |
| Sohan Lal Pathak[11] | Punjab | |
| Sukhdev | Punjab | |
| Baba Kanshi Ram | Punjab | |
| Udham Singh | Punjab | |
| Shah Nawaz Khan (general) | Punjab |
Leaders from Gujarat and Maharashtra (Bombay Presidency)
| Name | Place | Deeds |
|---|---|---|
| Mohammad Ali Jinnah | Bombay, Karachi | Founder of Pakistan, also known as Quaid-e-Azam (Great leader) |
| Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak | ||
| Chapekar brothers | ||
| Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve | ||
| Tantia Tope | Yeola, Maharashtra, India | Was the General of the 1857 Uprising |
| Dadabhai Naoroji | ||
| Mohandas Gandhi | Most important leader, is known as 'The Father of the Nation'. | |
| Kasturba Gandhi | Wife of Gandhiji; a significant woman independence activist. | |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | A Social leader, who played a major role in the country's struggle for
independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation. | |
| Maniben Patel | She was the daughter of Sardar Patel. Maniben was imprisoned during the Quit India struggle and was held in custody in Yeravda Jail | |
| Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel | ||
| Ratnappa Kumbhar | ||
| Ravi Shankar Vyas | ||
| Narhari Parikh | ||
| Jivatram Kripalani | ||
| Mahadev Desai | ||
| Manilal Pandya | ||
| Mohanlal Pandya | ||
| Abbas Tyabji | ||
| Gopal Krishna Gokhale | ||
| Narahar Vishnu Gadgil | ||
| Vithalbhai Patel | ||
| Vinoba Bhave | ||
| Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar | ||
| Mridula Sarabhai | ||
| Vinayak Damodar Savarkar | He published The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion
of 1857 that was banned by British authorities. He was arrested in 1910 for his connections with the revolutionary group India House. | |
| Bhulabhai Desai | ||
| Morarji Desai | ||
| Bhikaiji Cama | ||
| Joseph Baptista | ||
| U.N. Dhebar | ||
| Pujya Mota | ||
| Pandit Shyamji Krishna Varma | ||
| Mahadev Govind Ranade | ||
| Tatya Tope | ||
| Rani Laxmibai | ||
| Mahatma Jyotiba Phule | ||
| Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj | ||
| Jhaverchand Meghani | ||
| Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi | Gujarat | |
| Indulal Yagnik | ||
| Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi | ||
| Shankarlal Banker | ||
| Dula Bhaya Kag | ||
| Shankarlal Parikh | Kheda Satyagraha by Sjt. Shankarlal Parikh of Kathlal, Kheda. | |
| Kishorlal Mashruwala[12] | ||
| Usha Mehta | ||
| Samaldas Gandhi | ||
| Prabhudas Gandhi[13] | ||
| Ramanlal N. Patel[14] | ||
| Pramodbhai K. Desai[15] | ||
| Darbar Gopaldas Desai[16] | ||
| Nana Patil | ||
| Jamnalal Bajaj | ||
| Prabhudas Patwari | ||
| Achyut Patwardhan | ||
| Subhadra Shroff[17] | ||
| Sumati Vaidya[17] | ||
| Babubhai P. Vaidya | ||
| Shirishkumar Mehta | ||
| Pherozeshah Mehta | ||
| Gokulbhai Bhatt | ||
| Jugatrambhai Dave[18] | ||
| Makarand Dave[19][20] |
Leaders from South India
Leaders from the South India are[21]
| Name | Place | Deeds |
|---|---|---|
| Puli Thevar | Nerkattumseval, Tamil Nadu | First Indian ruler to have fought and defeated the British |
| Raja Venkatappa Nayaka | Surapura, Gulbarga | Fought against east India company, and died in prison. |
| U. Muthuramalingam Thevar | Tamil Nadu | |
| Nyapati Subba Rao pantulu[22] | ||
| Muthuramalinga sethupathy[23] | Tamil Nadu | He joined with Dutch and manufactured cannons. He resisted the efforts of the British
to have absolute rights over purchase of textile goods. |
| V.V.S.Aiyar | ||
| Gangadhar rao Deshpande[24] | Karnataka | |
| K.S.Subramanya[25] | ||
| Alluri Sita Rama Raju | ||
| Amarajeevi Potti Sreeramulu | ||
| Chakravarti Rajgopalachari | ||
| Sardar Vedaratnam | ||
| Kayyar Kinhanna Rai | ||
| Krishna Menon | ||
| Mathai Manjooran | ||
| A. J. John, Anaparambil | ||
| Pattabhi Sitarammiaya | ||
| Kandukuri Veeresalingam | ||
| Sarojini Naidu | ||
| Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan | ||
| S. K. Amin | ||
| Krovvidi Lingaraju[26] | jail term in 1932-33 for his participation in the freedom struggle. | |
| Tiruppur Kumaran | Tamil Nadu | |
| K. Kamaraj | Tamil Nadu | |
| M. Bhakthavatsalam | ||
| Tanguturi Prakasam | Andhra Pradesh | |
| V.O. Chidambaram Pillai | Tamil Nadu | Swadeshi shipping service |
| Subramanya Bharathy | Tamil Nadu | |
| Vanchinathan | Tamil Nadu | |
| Thillaiaadi Valliammai | Tamil Nadu | |
| Lakshmi Sehgal | ||
| G. Subramania Iyer | Tamil Nadu | |
| T.Sadasivam | Tamil Nadu | |
| J. C. Kumarappa | ||
| O. P. Ramaswamy Reddiyar | Madras presidency | |
| P. Kakkan | Madras presidency | |
| A. Vaidyanatha Iyer | Tamil Nadu | |
| R. Chidambara Bharathi | Tamil Nadu | |
| Chempakaraman Pillai | Went to Berlin, Germany to organise an army to declare war against the British for India's freedom During the Indian Independence Movement. | |
| Subramanya Siva | Tamil Nadu | |
| C. Subramaniam | Tamil Nadu | |
| Mattapparai Venkatrama Iyer[27] | ||
| K.S. Subramaniam[28] | ||
| N.S. Varadachari[29] | ||
| Mannargudi K. Bhashyam[30] | Tamil Nadu | |
| Salem C. Vijayaraghavachariar | Tamil Nadu | |
| Sangu Subramaniam[31] | ||
| 'Va.Ra.' V. Ramaswami[32] | Tamil Nadu | writer and editor of (independence related) newspapers |
| V. S. Srinivasa Sastri | He was a close follower of Gokhale. In 1924, he accompanied Annie Besant on a visit to England demanding Home Rule for India.
He also participated in the first and second round table conferences. | |
| George Joseph[33] | ||
| N.M.R. Subburaman[34] | He actively participated in the Indian freedom movement and he supported for Harijans,
which led to the formation of Tamil Nadu Harijan Sevak Sangh, a unit of All India Harijan Sevak Sangh founded by Mahatma Gandhi. | |
| V. Kalyanasundaram | ||
| Kittur Chennamma | Karnataka | Armed rebellion against the British |
| Kalki Krishnamurthy | Tamil Nadu | |
| Srinivasa varadhan[35] | ||
| P. Varadarajulu Naidu | ||
| Rani Velu Nachiyar and Maruthu Pandiyar | Sivaganga Tamil Nadu | Armed rebellion against British |
| G. A. Natesan | ||
| V. Subbiah | Pondicherry | |
| Veerapandiya Kattabomman | Panchalankurichi, Tamil Nadu | Armed rebellion against British |
| Dheeran Chinnamalai | Erode, Tamil Nadu | Armed rebellion against British |
| Muthulakshmi Reddi | Social reformer, the first woman legislator in British India, the first Chairperson of the State Social Welfare Advisory Board. | |
| Lakshmi Sahgal | Kerala | Commander of the Rani of Jhansi Regiment of the INA and her role as a minister in Subhas Bose's Azad Hind government |
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