List of Indian independence activists

This is a list of individuals who notably 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 society to obtain political independence from the British, French and Portuguese rule through the use of a many of methods.

Post-independence, the term "freedom fighter" was officially recognized by the Indian government for those who took part in the movement; people in this category (which can also include dependent family members)[1] receive pensions and other benefits such as special railway counters.[2]

List of Indian freedom fighters

Name	Birth	Death	Activity
Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone	1710	1757	Maveeran Alagumuthu Kone (1710–1757) is a First Freedom Fighter from Kattalankulam in Thoothukudi District, was an early Chieftain and freedom fighter against the British presence in Tamil Nadu. Born into a Konar caste family, he became a military leader in the town of Ettayapuram, and was defeated in battle there against the British and Maruthanayagam's forces. He was executed in 1757 In his memory, the government of Tamil Nadu conducts a Pooja ceremony every year on 11 July. A documentary film based on his life was released in 2012.
Maruthu Pandiyar	1748	1801	The brothers Periya and Chinna Marudhu were Tamil Nadu chieftains said to have invented the valari.[3] They were the first to issue a proclamation against the British.[4]
Dheeran Chinnamalai	1756	1805	An indigenous governor, he took part in guerrilla warfare against the British East India Company.
Jayi Rajaguru	1739	1806	A prominent figure of the Indian independence movement in the state of Odisha.
Pazhassi Raja	1753	1805	He used guerrilla warfare to fight the British in the Cotiote War (Kottayathu war, 1793–1805) to preserve the independence of his kingdom. He was killed at Mavila Thodu at the present Kerala-Karnataka border.[5]
Veerapandiya Kattabomman	1760	1799	He refused to accept the sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged a war against the British.[3]
Babu Kunwar Singh	1777	1858	A Rajput military commander in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Kittur Chennamma	1778	1829	An Indian freedom fighter and rani of the Kittur, a former princely state in Karnataka. She led an armed force against the British East India Company in 1824 in defiance of the doctrine of lapse in an attempt to maintain Indian control over the region, but was defeated in the third war and died in prison.
Titumir	1782	1831	A freedom fighter who led a campaign against British rule during the 19th century, he eventually built a bamboo fort in Narikelberia village which became the subject of Bengali folk legend. Titumir died of wounds following the storming of the fort by British soldiers.
Sangolli Rayanna	1798	1831	The army chief of Kittur, who fought the British East India Company until his death.
Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy	1805	1847	He led an uprising in Andhra Pradesh in 1846 and was executed by the British.[6]
Ahmadullah Shah	1787	1857	He led in various battles including the Battle of Chinhat, the Siege of Lucknow, the Capture of Lucknow, and the Chapati Movement.
Mangal Pandey	1827	1857	He rebelled against his British Indian army commanders and was executed.
Dhan Singh Gurjar	1820	1857	He was the police chief of Meerut, who participated in the 1857 rebellion and led initial actions against the British East India Company in Meerut.
Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi	1832	1880	The founder of Darul Uloom Deoband, he participated in the 1857 rebellion in Shamli.[7]
Mahmud Hasan Deobandi	1851	1920	He and his students launched the Silk Letter Movement and laid the foundation of Jamia Millia Islamia on 29 October 1920.[8]
V. O. Chidambaram Pillai	1872	1936	A hardline politician of the Indian National Congress (INC), he launched the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company in defiance of the British trade monopoly.[9]
Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar	1908	1963	A leader of the socialist All India Forward Bloc, he was arrested and jailed by the British.
Seth Harchandrai Vishandas	1862	1928	A Sindhi politician and influential mayor of Karachi, he fought for Muslim-Hindu unity and the independence movement, particularly in opposing the Simon Commission of 1912. He died while travelling (against doctor's advice) to vote for its boycott.
B. R. Ambedkar	1891	1956	Politician who campaigned and negotiated for independence, and was pivotal in formation of the Indian Constitution.
Subramania Bharati	1882	1921	A writer and activist who created many patriotic and nationalistic songs during the independence movement.
Alluri Sitarama Raju	1897	1924	He led the Rampa Rebellion of 1922.
Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi	1888	1963	He founded the Khaksar Movement in British India.
Aruna Asaf Ali	1909	1996	An educator and activist who is widely remembered for hoisting the INC flag during the Quit India Movement, 1942.
Shambhu Dutt Sharma	1918	2016	A former British Indian Army officer, he joined the Quit India Movement in 1942.
Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu	1872	1957	An Indian politician, he became known as "Andhra Kesari" (lion of Andhra) for leading protests against the Simon Commission in Madras.
Swami Shraddhanand	1856	1926	An activist, he started a protest in front of a posse of Gurkha soldiers at the Clock Tower in Chandni Chowk.[10]
Khudiram Bose	1889	1908	One of the youngest revolutionary martyrs, he was executed following an attempted assassination bombing which accidentally killed two innocents instead of the then oppressive Viceroy of Bengal .
Chandra Shekhar Azad	1906	1931	When the HRA leadership were arrested following the Kakori train robbery, he reorganized the group and operated it until his death.
Komaram Bheem	1901	1940	A tribal leader, he fought for the liberation of Hyderabad.
Chittaranjan Das	1869	1925	He founded the Swaraj Party and became the leader of the Non-cooperation Movement in Bengal.
Veer Savarkar	1883	1966	He was an Independence activist, politician and a Hindu Nationalist. He published books advocating complete Indian independence by revolutionary means. One of the books he published called The Indian War of Independence about the Indian rebellion of 1857. In 1910, Savarkar was arrested and ordered to be extradited to India for his connections with the revolutionary freedom group India House. He was later sentenced to a total 50 years imprisonment at the Cellular Jail
Ram Prasad Bismil	1897	1927	The founder of the HRA, he led the Kakori conspiracy in an attempt to raise funds for revolutionary operations.
Udham Singh	1899	1940	A revolutionary assassin, he was executed for the Caxton Hall shooting.
Hemu Kalani	1923	1943	A student revolutionary who was executed for attempted rail sabotage.
Ashfaqulla Khan	1900	1927	A founding member of the HRA, he was executed for taking part in the Kakori conspiracy.
Sachindra Bakshi	1904	1984	A member of the HRA, he took part in the Kakori conspiracy.
Manmath Nath Gupta	1908	2000	A member of the HRA, he took part in the Kakori conspiracy.
Vasudev Balwant Phadke	1845	1883	A Ramoshi revolutionary, he organized an insurgent group against British rule
Matangini Hazra	1870	1942	An activist with the Quit India Movement, she was fatally shot by British Indian police.
Anant Laxman Kanhere	1891	1910	A revolutionary assassin, he was executed for the murder of oppressive British officer A. M. T. Jackson.
Vanchinathan	1886	1911	A revolutionary assassin, he committed suicide after killing an oppressive and tyrannical tax collector Robert Ashe.
Krishnaji Gopal Karve	1887	1910	A revolutionary, he was executed as an accomplice to the murder of A. M. T. Jackson.
Bagha Jatin	1879	1915	A founding member of Anushilan Samiti, convicted in the Howrah-Sibpur conspiracy case and a participant in the Indo-German Conspiracy.
Batukeshwar Dutt	1910	1965	A revolutionary fighting against the inhumane and tyrannic British rule, he threw a bomb in the Central Assembly in 1929.
Sukhdev Thapar	1907	1931	A revolutionary fighting against the inhumane and tyrannic British rule, he was hanged following conviction in the 1929 Central Assembly Bomb Case.
Shivaram Rajguru	1908	1931	Associate of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev Thapar in the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association. Involved in the assassination of cruel and reppressive British police officer J. P. Saunders.
Roshan Singh	1892	1927	A revolutionary who was among those executed for the Kakori conspiracy, though he had not taken part in it.
Prabhavati Devi	1906	1973	A Gandhian leader, she was the wife of activist Jayaprakash Narayan.
Pritilata Waddedar	1911	1932	A Bengali revolutionary, she led the attack on the European Club in Pahartali and committed suicide to avoid capture.
Jatindra Nath Das	1904	1929	An activist and revolutionary, he died during a hunger strike while awaiting trial for the Lahore conspiracy case.
Durgawati Devi	1907	1999	A revolutionary, she helped operate a bomb factory.
Bhagwati Charan Vohra	1904	1930	A revolutionary ideologue and bomb-maker, he wrote the article "The Philosophy of Bomb".
Madan Lal Dhingra	1883	1909	An activist and revolutionary fighting aganist the inhumane and tyranic British rule, he assassinated British official Curzon Wyllie.
Alluri Sitarama Raju	1897	1924	A revolutionary, he led the Rampa Rebellion of 1922.
Kushal Konwar	1905	1943	An organizer of the Quit India movement, he was judged the mastermind of a troop train derailment and hanged.
Surya Sen	1894	1934	President of INC Chittagong Branch, he led the Chittagong armoury raid.
Ananta Singh	1903	1979	A revolutionary, he participated in the Chittagong armoury raid.
Ganesh Ghosh	1900	1994	A revolutionary, he participated in the Chittagong armoury raid.
Sri Aurobindo	1872	1950	A nationalist, he was arrested for leading the Alipore bomb conspiracy.
Rash Behari Bose	1886	1945	A revolutionary, he helped form the Indian National Army in Imperial Japan.
Ubaidullah Sindhi	1872	1944	An activist, he sought independence through foreign alliance in the Silk Letter Movement.
Uzair Gul Peshawari		1989	An activist, he was imprisoned for the Silk Letter Movement.[11]
Lokenath Bal	1908	1964	A revolutionary, he participated in the Chittagong armoury raid.
Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee	1895	1969	A revolutionary, he was imprisoned for the Kakori conspiracy.
Baikuntha Shukla	1907	1934	A revolutionary, he was executed for murdering a government witness.
Ambika Chakrabarty	1892	1962	A revolutionary, he took part in the Chittagong armoury raid.
Badal Gupta	1912	1930	A revolutionary, he died in an attack on police at Writers' Building.
Dinesh Gupta	1911	1931	A revolutionary, he was executed following an attack on police at Writers' Building.
Benoy Basu	1908	1930	A revolutionary, he died following an attack on police at Writers' Building.
Rajendra Lahiri	1901	1927	A revolutionary, he participated in the Kakori conspiracy.
Barindra Kumar Ghosh	1880	1959	A revolutionary organizer, he was convicted in the Alipore bomb case.
Prafulla Chaki	1888	1908	A revolutionary, he killed two innocents in a mistargetted assassination bombing.
Ullaskar Dutta	1885	1965	A revolutionary bomb-maker, he was convicted in the Alipore bomb case.
Bhupendra Kumar Datta	1892	1979	A revolutionary, editor of the publications of Anushilan Samiti.
Ramesh Chandra Jha	1925	1994	An activist, he was a member of the Quit India movement.
Hemchandra Kanungo	1871	1951	A nationalist, convicted in the Alipore bomb case.
Surendranath Tagore	1872	1940	A nationalist, he served as treasurer of the Anushilan Samiti.
Basawon Singh	1909	1989	An activist, he was convicted in the Lahore Conspiracy Case trial.
Bhavabhushan Mitra	1881	1970	Ghadar Mutiny
Bina Das	1911	1986	A revolutionary, she attempted to assassinate Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson.
Kalpana Datta	1913	1995	Involved in the Indian Independence Movement; also part of the Chittagong armoury raid planning.
Kartar Singh Sarabha	1896	1915	A revolutionary, he helped with the Ghadar Party paper and the attempted Ghadar Mutiny.
Shyamji Krishna Varma	1857	1930	A nationalist, he founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.
Subhas Chandra Bose	1897	1945	A nationalist, he founded the Indian Legion in Nazi Germany and revamped the Indian National Army in Imperial Japan.
Binod Bihari Chowdhury	1911	2013	A revolutionary, he took part in the Chittagong armoury raid.
Bhupendranath Datta	1880	1961	A revolutionary, he was editor of newspaper Jugantar Patrika.
Amarendranath Chatterjee	1880	1957	A revolutionary, he raised funds and took part in the Indo-German Conspiracy.
Atulkrishna Ghosh	1890	1966	A revolutionary, he took part in the [Indo-German Conspiracy.
Subodh Roy	1916	2006	A revolutionary, he took part in the Chittagong armoury raid and later the Tebhaga movement.
Maulvi Liaquat Ali	1812	1892	A leader of the Sepoy Mutiny, he captured Khusro Bagh in Allahabad and declared the independence of India.
Asaf Ali	1888	1953	A nationalist, he campaigned for independence.
Rani of Jhansi	1828	1858	One of the Pivotal Leaders of the First war of Independence of 1857.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	1869	1948	Father of the Nation, he was the preeminent leader of nonviolent civil disobedience and led the final struggle of India to independence.
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel	1875	1950	The Iron man of India, he fought for independence and Unified India into one sovereign Nation .
Jawahar Lal Nehru	1889	1964	An activist, he campaigned for independence and became India's first prime minister.
S. Satyamurti	1887	1943	A politician, he campaigned for independence.[12]
Shaukat Ali	1873	1938	An activist and revolutionary, he campaigned for independence and supplied weapons to revolutionaries.[13]
Sushila Chain Trehan	1923	2011	An activist, she was a leading member of Arya Samaj and also fought for women's rights.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak	1856	1920	[The Father of Indian Unrest] A staunch nationalist, he campaigned for complete Swaraj (self-rule).
Bipin Chandra Pal	1858	1932	A staunch nationalist, he was a founding member of the swadeshi movement and campaigned for complete Swaraj Swadeshi movement.
Lala Lajpat Rai	1865	1928	A staunch nationalist, he was a founding member of the swadeshi movemment and campaigned for complete Swaraj Swadeshi movement.
Alekh Patra	1923	1999	A nationalist, he was jailed for burning a police station.
Accamma Cherian	1909	1982	An activist, she was named acting president of the Travancore State Congress while the leadership were jailed.
Rosamma Punnoose	1913	2013	An activist, she campaigned for independence.
Annie Mascarene	1902	1963	An activist and politician, she was arrested several times while campaigning for independence.
Sadiq Ali	1910	2001	In 1930, he was imprisoned for violating the Salt Law and during 1942, he stayed with Gandhiji at the Sevagram Ashram and focused on Khadi Village Industries. In 1943 he was sentenced to two years under a personal satyagraha. He was a member of the Constituent Assembly from 1950-52. Elected to Rajya Sabha from 1958 to 1977. Served as Governor of Maharashtra from 1977 to 1980 and as Governor of Tamil Nadu in 1980 to 1982. He was the President of Delhi Rajghat Samadhi Samiti from 1992 to 1996.
Titusji	1905	1980	An activist, he was among the 78 marchers selected by Mahatma Gandhi to take part in the 1930 Salt March.
George Joseph (Kerala)	1887	1938	An activist, he led the non-cooperation movement in Madurai.
T. V. Thomas	1910	1977	One of the first generation trade union leaders in Kerala and was actively involved in the Indian independence movement.
Madhusudan Das	1848	1934	A leader from the Christian community in Odisha, popularly known as "Utkal Gourab". He was the first graduate and advocate of Odisha.
Kali Charan Banerjee	1847	1907	A Bengali Christian politician, he regularly addressed the Indian National Congress annual sessions in moulding the policy of national movement.
Sukhdev Thapar	1907	1931	A revolutionary, he was a senior member of HSRA and participated in several actions before his execution.
Shivaram Rajguru	1908	1931	A revolutionary, he was an HSRA member and assassinated a tyranic british police officer.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee	1838	1894	A nationalist, he wrote Vande Mataram which inspired many activists and became the national song of India.
Kazi Nazrul Islam	1899	1976	A nationalist, he called for revolution in his poetic works and publications.
Sarojini Naidu	1879	1949	An activist, she called for independence in her writing and was a major figure of the civil disobedience movement.
Tara Rani Srivastava	unknown	unknown	An activist, she was part of the Quit India movement.
Chowdary Satyanarayana	1908	1981	He was an Indian freedom fighter, anti-colonial nationalist, politician, legislature in Andhra Pradesh Assembly (1955–62, 1967–72) and a human rights activist.

||Bhagat Singh ||1907||1931||A socialist revolutionary who worked with several revolutionary organisations and became prominent in the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA). |- [14][15]

See also

• Category:Indian revolutionaries

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