List of Important Personalities of Indian Freedom Struggle like Bal Gangadhar Tilak etc
List of Important Personalities of Indian Freedom Struggle. The Freedom Fighters of India have made an invaluable and unforgettable contribution to the Independence of India. Here is a comprehensive list of all the brave individuals who fought for our freedom: Mahatma Gandhi, Subhash Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Bhagat Singh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai and many more. Useful for exams like UPSC, UPPSC, Other State exams and One Day Exams.
Participated in the establishment of New English School (later known as Ferguson College) in 1880’s
Magazine – Maratha(English), Kesari(Marathi)
Ganpati Festival (since 1893) – to spread his Nationalist thoughts
Shivaji Utsav(since 1895) – to teach the youth the ideologies of Shivaji
Valentine Chirol, a prominent British journalist called him ‘The father of Indian Unrest’
He never elected as Congress President
He was against the idea of Non Cooperation Movement
He died in August, 1920
Lala Lajpat Rai (Sher-e-Punjab)
Born in 1865, Ferozpur, Punjab
Practice law in Court of Hisar and Rohtak (Haryana)
He served during the famine of 1897
He Opposed Simon Commission (3 Feb,1928)
Died in November,1928 during the protest against Simon Commission due to brutality of Britishers
Institution – Indian Home rule league of America (New York, 1917), Congress Independence party in 1920, Foundation of Punjab National Bank
Bipin Chandra Pal
Went to England to study Comparative theology in 1898
He joined the Congress Party in 1886
He was a great orator and writer
He was one of who forms the idea of Swadeshi
He retired from active politics in 1920
Work – Edited journal – ‘The democrat’, ’The Independent’ Magazine and Newspaper – ‘Paridarshak’, ’Vande mataram’, ’New India’,’Swaraj’ Books – Indian Nationalism, Swaraj and The Present Situation, Nationality and empire, The Basis of Social reform, The new Spirit and Studies in Hinduism, The Soul of India
Chitranjan Das (Deshbandhu)
He was the President of Congress in 1921 of Ahmedabad session
He co-founded the Swaraj Party
Das practiced law at The Honorable Society of the Inner Temple at London in England
He defends successfully Arbindo Ghosh in Alipore Bomb case
In 1920 he sacrifices all his luxuries and start to support Khadi
Suryasen (Master Da)
He Joined Anushilan Samiti ,a revolutionary organization in Bengal
He was a math teacher in Chittagong
He trained and groomed youngster on weaponry and bomb making
He raid on an ammunition of government and cut off the communication on 18 April, 1930
He was hanged on 12 January, 1934
Jatindranath Das
He was a human right activist and a revolutionary
He joined Anushilan Samiti
He Collaborated with the member of Hindustan Republican Socialist Association(HSRA)
He died in 1929 following a 63 days long fast fighting for the rights of political prisoners at the age of 25
Subhas chandra bose called him the “Young Dadhichee”
Sardar Bhagat Singh
Born in 1907
Enrolled in Dayanand Anglo Vedic School in Lahore
In 1923, he joined National College in Lahore (founded by Lalalajpat Rai)
Exploded a bomb in central assembly Delhi with Batukeshwar dutt on April 8, 1929
Auguste Valliant, a French anarchist was an inspiration for him
Book – Why I am an Atheist (wrote in Lahore jail, 1930)
He read the teaching of Leo Tolstoy, Vladimir Lenin, Karl Marx, and Mikhail Bakunin Martyr in 23 March, 1931
Mahendra Nath Roy (M.N Roy)
He’s actual name was Narendranath Bhattacharya
He is India’s international revolutionaries
Founding member of Communist party of India
He also established the Communist party in Mexico in 1917
Roy joined the Anushilan Samiti at 14
He help to organize the ‘Yugantar Group’ under the leadership of Jatin mukharjee
In November, 1908, He Shot dead Nandlal Banerjee, the Police officer who arrested Khudiram Bose
He was expelled from the communist international in 1929
Roy return to India and arrested for the involvement in the Kanpur Bolshevik Conspiracy
He joined the Congress in 1936,later he left the party in 1940
Institution – Indian renaissance Institute, 1946 , to develop the Indian renaissance movement
Book – My experience in China
Aruna Asaf Ali
Born as Aruna Ganguly in 1909
She married to lawyer and Indian national congress leader Asaf Ali in 1928
In 1930 she joined the salt Satyagrah
She protests against the treatment of political prisoner in Tihar jail by launching a hunger strike
Aruna asaf ali preside over the 9 august, 1942 session and hosted the Congress flag at the Gowalia Tank Maidan during the Quit India movement
She edited the monthly Congress magazine ‘Inqulab’
She involved with Socialist party and Communist party in 1940s and 1950s
In 1958, she was elected as mayor of Delhi
Award – Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding , 1991 Padma Vibhushan, 1992 Bharat Ratna, 1996 (after her death)
Chidambaram Pillai
Spread s the Swadeshi movement in Madras
Organized Tuticoran Mill Strike
Established Indian Steam Navigation Company
Lala Harkishan Lal
Made Swadeshi movement famous among people in Punjab by an organization based on Brahmo Samaj
Newspaper – Tribune
Established – Punjab National Bank
Madan Mohan Malviya (Mahamana)
Dr S. Radhakrishan gave him the title of Karmayogi
He was moderate extremist
In 1930 he took part in Salt Satyagrah and Civil Disobedience Movemnt
He was elected president of Congress four times (1909,1918,1932 and 1933)
Devanagri was introduced in court after the effort of Malviya
Work immensely for Hindu Muslim Unity
He was expelled from the Brahmin Community for expressing his views on caste discrimination and Brahmincal Patriarchy
He helped to established Hindu Mahasabha in 1915
Founded the Banaras Hindu University in 1916
Journalism – Hindi weekly -Abhyuday, 1907 Hindi Monthly – Maryada, 1910 English Daily- Leader, 1909 Editor of Hindi weekly – The Hindustan and Indian Union Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hindustan Times
Bharat Ratna in 2016
Subhash Chandra Bose
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was born in Cuttack, Orissa on 23 January, 1897
He passed his civil Service examination in 1920
He resigned in 1921, after hearing the Nationalist turmoil in India
In 1938 – became president of Congress and formed a national planning committee, which formulated a policy of broad industrialization
In 1939, again became the president of Congress but resigned due to conflict with Gandhiji
Associations – Indian National Congress Forward Bloc – 1939 Indian National Army
Newspaper – Swaraj
Rabindranath Tagore
Also referred as Kabiguru, Vishvakavi, and Gurudev
Given the title ‘Mahatma’ to Gandhiji
He had spoken in world Parliament Religions in the years 1929 and 1937
Contribution – Composed over 2000 songs Popular song is Ekla chalo re National anthem for India and Bangladesh He established Vishwa Bharti University in 1921
Award – Noble prize – literature in 1913 (Gitanjali). Awarded (Knighthood) in 1915
Jawaharlal Nehru
Education – Attended Harrow, an English school in 1905 Trinity college, Cambridge (Natural Science) Barrister form Inner Temple, London
Participated in Bankipore Congress in 1912
Joined Annie Besant Home Rule in 1916
Became secretary in 1919 of Home rule league
In 1920, joined Non cooperation movement
Lathi Charged in Lucknow, while protesting Simon Commission
President of Congress in 1929 in Lahore session
In 1929, he drafted a resolution called fundamental right and Economic policy
Participated in Salt Satyagraha, arrested and jailed
Introduced Quit India movement in 1942
President of Indian National Congress in 1946
Prime minister of interim government
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