Famous Indian Freedom Fighters

Udham Singh was one of the great patriots of India, born as Sher Singh on 26 December 1899, at Sunam, in the then princely state of Patiala. Sher Singh lost his parents before he was seven years and was admitted along with his brother Mukta Singh to the Central Khalsa Orphanage at Amritsar on 24 […]

Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru was an eminent lawyer, political and social leader in India during the British Raj. He was knighted in 1922. Tej Bahadur Sapru was born on December 8, 1875 in Aligarh, (U.P.) He was born in a Kashmiri Hindu family. He was educated at the Agra College. Sapru worked in the Allahabad

Tantya Tope (1814-1859), also known as Ram Chandra Pandurang, was an Indian leader in the Indian rebellion of 1857.Born in at village Yeola in Maharashtra, he was the son of Pandurang Rao Tope, an important noble at the court of the Maratha Peshwa Baji Rao II. His father shifted his family with the ill-fated Peshwa

Sarvepalli Radha-krishnan was born in Tirutani on September 5, 1888 into a poor brahmin family. His father Sarvepalli Veeraswami was employed on a meagre salary in the zamindari. His mother’s name was Sitamma. It was difficult for Radhakrishnan’s father to educate him with a meagre income and a large family to take care of. Radhakrishnan went

Born on 10 November 1848 at Calcutta in West Bengal, Surendranath Banerjee was intensely swayed by the liberal, progressive thinking of his father, Durga Charan Banerjee.Surendranath Banerjee was the President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 and 1902. He was largely responsible in canalising the energy of the youth of Bengal to the

Sukhdev Thapar, son of Ram Lal, was born on May 15, 1907 at Lyalpur now in Pakistan and holds place in the list of prominent Indian revolutionaries.Late twenties witnessed the agitation of revolutionaries when Lala Lajpat Rai was beaten to death when heading an anti-Simon procession. The incident took place in Lahore. It was a

Sucheta Kriplani was a great freedom fighter of India. She was born as Sucheta Mazumdar in the year 1908. She was the first woman to be elected as the Chief Minister of a state in India. She made an immense contribution in fighting for the freedom of India.Sucheta Kriplani was born to a Bengali family

Subhas Chandra Bose was born on January 23, 1897. His father was Rai Bahadur Janakinath Bose, a prominent lawyer of Cuttack, Orissa. His mother was Prabhavati Bose, a remarkable example of Indian womanhood.After completing his early studies at the European Protestant Collegiate School in Cuttack, he came to Calcutta to study at Presidency College in

Shivram Hari Rajguru was born in an average middle-class Hindu Brahmin family at Khed in Poona district in 1906. He came to Varanasi at a very early age where he learnt Sanskrit and read the Hindu religious scriptures. He loved physical exercises and was associated with a number of such associations. He had great admiration

India’s freedom fighters seem to have come from all walks of life and from many varied backgrounds. Of those freedom fighters one stands out as a man who had only one goal and only one vision. His fight centered not on the issue of whether to use violence or not in the struggle, nor was

Sarojini was a great patriot, politician, orator and administrator. She had an integrated personality and could mesmerise audiences with her pure honesty and patriotism. She was a life-long freedom fighter, social worker, ideal housewife and poet.She was born on February 13, 1879 in Hyderabad. Her father, Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya, was the founder of Nizam College

Born in 1899, Ramprasad Bismil was one of the great Indian freedom fighters. He was also a great poet and has written several inspiring verses. He was prosecuted by the British Government in India. Ramaprasad Bismil joined the select band of martyrs who dreamt of a free India and made the supreme sacrifice, so that

Rash Behari was born on May 25, 1886, in Palara-Bighati (Hoogly) village. His mother passed away in 1889 when Rash Behari was still a baby. He was brought up thereafter by his maternal aunt Vama Sundari.Rash Behari’s was initially educated at Subaldaha under the supervision of his grandfather, Kalicharan, and later in Dupleix College at

Ram Manohar Lohia was born on March 23, 1910 in a village named Akbarpur in the District of Faizabad. Ram’s father, Hira Lal, was a nationalist by spirit and a teacher by profession. His mother, Chanda, died when Ram was very young. Ram was introduced to the Indian freedom struggle at an early age by

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur was born on February 2,1889 in Lucknow. She was the daughter of Raja Harnam Singh of the Kapurthala royal family. She received her higher education in England.After completing her education, she came in contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Mahatma Gandhi. After that she entered the freedom struggle of India. She became