Freedom Fighters India- Independence Day 1857 to 15th August 1947

Guys 15^th august is the day which we Indians never ever forget. Thousands or lakhs of our freedom fighters give their lives so that we can live in free India. With unfailing courage and endurance our freedom fighters stood at the forefront fighting back India from the British clutches.

Freedom Fighters of India Independence

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi (Bapu)

Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi) was born into a Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, Gujarat, India in 1869. He was the son of Karamchand Gandhi, the diwan (Chief Minister) of Porbandar, and Putlibai, Karamchand’s fourth wife (his previous three wives had died in childbirth), a Hindu of the Pranami Vaishnava order.
Bapu went to the UK in 1891 to study law and entered the British bar, but soon returned to India and started practising in Bombay. Thereafter, he moved to South Africa to join work as a legal advisor to businessman Dada Abdulla. He stayed there for twenty long years and fought for the rights of the Indians. But in 1915, Gandhiji returned to India and devoted himself to the freedom struggle. Numerous freedom fighters were pleased with his personality and the unique way in which he fought.
After this, there was no looking back. Mahatma Gandhi launched movements like the Non-cooperation Movement, Purna Swaraj, Civil Disobedience Movement, Quit India Movement which shook the British Raj completely.  Growing up with a devout mother and surrounded by the Jain influences of Gujarat, Gandhi learned from an early age the tenets of non-injury to living beings, vegetarianism, fasting for self-purification, and mutual tolerance between members of various creeds and sects.
Mahatma Gandhi, symbol of Free India, was assassinated by Nathuram Godse on 30 January 1948.

Mangal Pandey

Mangal Pandey, was an Indian soldier who played a key part in events immediately preceding the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. Pandey was a sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of the English East India Company. Though he served as a Sepoy in the East India Company, he revolted against them when he found that the cartridges which were by the British were greased with lard or tallow. Lard is pork fat and tallow is beef fat. Both Hindus and Muslims were opposed to this.
Mangal Pandey was sentenced to death on April 8, 1857 in Barrackpore.

Neta Subhash Chandra Bose

Subhash Chandra Bose (January 23, 1897 – August 18, 1945?), also known as Netaji, was one of the most prominent leaders of the Indian Independence Movement against the British Raj. Subhas Chandra Bose was born to an affluent family in Cuttack, Orissa. His father, Janakinath Bose, was a public prosecutor who believed in orthodox nationalism, and later became a member of the Bengal Legislative Council. His mother was Prabhavati Bose, a remarkable example of Indian womanhood. Bose was educated at Cambridge University. In 1920, Bose took the Indian Civil Service entrance examination and was placed second. However, he resigned from the prestigious Indian Civil Service in April 1921 despite his high ranking in the merit list, and went on to become an active member of India’s independence movement. He joined the Indian National Congress, and was particularly active in its youth wing. Subhas Chandra Bose felt that young militant groups could be molded into a military arm of the freedom movement and used to further the cause. Gandhiji opposed this ideology because it directly conflicted with his policy of ahimsa (non-violence).
Such was his charisma that he defeated Mahatma Gandhi`s own candidate in the Congress presidential elections during the beginning of World War II. But after winning the elections, Netaji left Congress. In 1939, Bose sought assistance from Germany, Italy, and Japan as they were enemies of Britain and thus, would be natural allies to India. Thereafter, Netaji formed the Indian National Army (INA) with some 30,000 Indian soldiers in 1943.  His slogan `Jai Hind` still resides amongst the people of this nation.

Rani Laxmi(lakshmi) Bai      

Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi was the queen of the Maratha-ruled princely state of Jhansi, situated in the north-central part of India.
She led the first freedom struggle in 1857 against the East India Company.

Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh (September 27, 1907 – March 23, 1931) was an Indian revolutionary, considered to be one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle. For this reason, he is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat Singh (the word shaheed means “martyr”). Bhagat Singh was born into a Sikh family to Sardar Kishan Singh and Vidyavati in the Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Jalandhar district of Punjab. His uncle, Sardar Ajit Singh, as well as his father, were great freedom fighters, so Bhagat Singh grew up in a patriotic atmosphere. Ajit Singh established the Indian Patriots’ Association, along with Syed Haidar Raza, to organize the peasants against the Chenab Canal Colony Bill. He also established the secret organization, the Bharat Mata Society. At an early age, Bhagat Singh started dreaming of uprooting the British empire. The massacre at Jallianwala Bagh on April 13, 1919 drove him to go to Amritsar, where he kissed the earth sanctified by the martyrs’ blood and brought back home a little of the soaked soil.
During the Simon Commission, Sher-e-Punjab Lala Lajpat Rai was wounded and died later. To avenge his death, Bhagat Singh and Rajguru killed Mr. Saunders (one of the deputy officers in connection with the Simon Commission).

Freedom Fighters of India List- Independence Day 2013

Aravinda Ghosh
Dr. Annie Besant
Allamah Iqbal
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar
Bhagat Singh
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bhulabhai Desai
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Bidhan Chandra Roy
Bipin Chandra Pal
Bagha Jatin Mukherjee
Chittranjan Das
Chakravarty Rajagopalachari
Chandra Sekhar Azad

Dadabhai Naoroji
Dinesh Gupta
Gobin Ballabh Pant
Gopalkrishna Gokhale
Jatin Mukherjee
Jay Prakash Narayan
Jawaharlal Nehru
J.B. Kripalani
K. Kamaraj
Kulapati Munshi
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan
Khudiram Bose
Lala Lajpat Rai
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Madan Lal Dhingraj
Mahadeo Govind Ranade
Motilal Nehru
Pt. Madan Mohan Malaviya
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mani Lal Gandhi
Mangal Pandey
Purushottam Das Tandon
Rani Laxmibai
Rajendra Prasad
Ram Manohar Lohia
Rash Behari Bose
Rabindranath Tagore
Ram Prasad Bismil
Senapati Bapat
S. Satyamurti
Shivaram Rajguru
Subhas Chandra Bose
Sukhdev
Sarojini Naidu
Surendranath Banerjea
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Tantya Tope
Udham Singh
Veer Savarkar
Vinoba Bhave
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
Vallabhbhai Patel
V.O. Chidambaram Pillai
Dr. Zakir Husain
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