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List of Freedom Fighters of India
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
Leaders from Haryana
Name

Banarsi
Gupta

Place

Das

Deeds

Formed Praja Mandal in Jind State to fight against


British Rule
Bhiwani
and went to jail many times. Later become Chief
Minister of Haryana
Involved in Peeli Kothi Bomb Blasting with Late
Aruna Asaf Ali.

Bhagwat
Beri,
Dayal Sharma Haryana

Fought against the British and, thus, was jailed


many times. Later become the first Chief Minister
of Haryana.

Leaders from North, United Provinces, Bihar, jharkhand and Central


India

Name
Bhola
Shastri

Place
Paswan

Tilka Manjhi

Deeds

Bihar

Bihar
and
Jharkhand

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Name

Place

Birsa Munda

Jharkhand

Sidhu Murmu

jharkhand

Kanhu Murmu

jharkhand

Chand Murmu

Jhanrkhand

Deeds

Bhairav Murmu Jharkhand


Sahajanand
Saraswati

United
Provinces

Chandrasekhar
Azad

United
Provinces

Kisan Aandolan

Sachindra Nath United


Sanyal
Provinces
Manmath
Gupta

Nath United
Provinces

Prem
Krishna United
Khanna
Provinces

Banwari Lal

United
Provinces

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Name

Place

Deeds

Rani Lakshmibai

United
Provinces

Armed rebellion against British

Mangal Pandey

United
Provinces

1857 revolt

Ram
Bismil

Prasad United
Provinces

Madan
Mohan United
Malaviya
Provinces
Rammanohar
Lohia

United
Provinces

Purushottam
Das Tandon

United
Provinces

Ashfaqulla Khan

United
Provinces

Lal
Bahadur United
Shastri
Provinces
Rajendra Prasad Bihar

Anugrah
Narayan Sinha

Bihar

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Assisted Mahatama
Gandhi in Champaran
Satyagraha of 1917, one of the
architects of modern Bihar,known
as Bihar Vibhuti, served as the
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Name

Place

Deeds
first Deputy Chief Minister of
Bihar.

Jayaprakash
Narayan

Bihar

Shriram Sharma

United
Provinces

Baikuntha
Shukla

Bihar

Became
'Matta'[3]

famous

as

Sriram

Thakur
Jugal
Kishore
Sinha| Bihar
Ram
Sinha

Dulari

Bihar

Raj Narain
Azimullah Khan
Karyanand
Sharma

Bihar

Ganesh Dutt

Bihar

Krishna Sinha

Bihar

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Name

Place

Motilal Nehru

United
Provinces

Guru
Kishan

Indore

Mobilized youth and textile


workers against British laws

Jawaharlal
Nehru

United
Provinces

First Prime Minister of India

Abul
Azad

Delhi

Bahadur
Zafar

Radha

Kalam

Shah

Sikander Bakht
Shankar
Sharma

Deeds

Delhi

Delhi

Dayal Madhya
Bharat

Hasrat Mohani

United
Provinces

Basawon
(Sinha)

Bihar

Singh

Yamuna Karjee

Bihar

Yogendra

Bihar

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Name

Place

Deeds

Shukla
Sheel
Yajee

Bhadra

Bihar

Yadunandan
Sharma

Bihar

Ramavriksha
Benipuri

Bihar

Ganga
Sharan
Singh (Sinha)
Mulana
Bihar
Mazharul Haque
Ali Jawad Zaidi

Bi Amman was an associate

Ashfaqullah

United
Provinces

Chandrasekhar
Azad

United
Provinces

Govind
Pant

Ballabh United
Provinces

Maulana
Shaukat Ali

United
Provinces

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Name

Place

Kamla Nehru

United
Provinces

Deeds

Mukhtar Ahmed United


Ansari
Provinces
Rafi
Kidwai

Ahmad United
Provinces

Narendra Dev

United
Provinces

Zakir Hussain

United
Provinces

Ganesh Shanker United


Vidyarthy
Provinces

Mahavir Tyagi

United
Provinces

Laxmi
Raman United
Acharya
Provinces
Ram
Lohia

Yashpal

Manohar United
Provinces
United
Provinces

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Name

Place

Batukeshwar
Dutt

United
Provinces

Sukhdev Thapar

United
Provinces

Shivaram
Rajguru

Deeds

Hari United
Provinces

Vijayalaksmi
Pandit

United
Provinces

Purushottam
Das Tandon

United
Provinces

Nana Sahib

Kanpur, Uttar
Pradesh

Seth Govind Das

Abdul Bari

Sahabad,
Jahanabad
Played active role in NonDistrict
in Cooperation Movement in 1922
Bihar.

Maghfoor
Ahmad Ajazi

Bihar

Jagjivan Ram

Bihar

Teju Ram Meghwal

Barmer,Rajasthan
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[edit]Leaders from Punjab and Northwest India
Name

Place

Deeds

Ram Singh

Punjab kuka movement

Allama Iqbal

Punjab

Amir Chand Bombwal

Punjab

Lala Lajpat Rai

Punjab

Sardul Singh Caveeshar

Punjab

Sheikh Abdullah

Punjab

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Punjab

Rao Tula Ram of Rewari


Baba Gurdit Singh

Punjab

Rae Ahmed Nawaz Khan Kharal Punjab


Baldev Singh

Punjab

Bhagat Singh

Punjab

Bhai Balmukund

Punjab

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Name

Place

Bhai Parmanand

Punjab

Bhai Ram Singh

Punjab

Kartar Singh Sarabha

Punjab

Kartar Singh Jhabbar

Punjab

Mahavarat Vidyalankar

Punjab

Madan Lal Dhingra

Punjab

Tej Bahadur Sapru

Punjab

Sardul Singh Caveeshar

Punjab

Shivaram Rajguru

Punjab

Sikander Hyat Khan

Punjab

Sukhdev

Punjab

Baba Kanshi Ram

Punjab

Udham Singh

Punjab

Shah Nawaz Khan (general)

Punjab

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[edit]Leaders from Gujarat and Maharashtra (Bombay Presidency)
Name

Place

Deeds

Mohammad Ali Bombay, Founder of Pakistan, also known as


Jinnah
Karachi Quaid-e-Azam (Great leader)
Bal Gangadhar
Tilak

Started Ganesh Utsav to unite people.

Chapekar
brothers
Dhondo Keshav
Karve
Dadabhai
Naoroji
Mohandas
Gandhi

Most important leader, is known as 'The


Father of the Nation'.

Kasturba
Gandhi

Wife of Gandhi; a significant woman


independence activist.

Vallabhbhai
Patel

Maniben Patel

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A Social leader, who played a major role


in the country's struggle for
independence and guided its integration
into a united, independent nation.
She was the daughter of Sardar Patel.
Maniben was imprisoned during the
Quit India struggle and was held in
custody in Yeravda Jail
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Place

Deeds

Tribhuvandas
Kishibhai Patel
Ratnappa
Kumbhar
Ravi
Vyas

Shankar

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
He published The Indian War of
Independence about the Indian rebellion
Vinayak
Damodar
Savarkar

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of 1857 that was banned by British


authorities. He was arrested in 1910 for
his connections with the revolutionary
group India House.

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Name

Place

Deeds

Bhulabhai
Desai
Morarji Desai
Imprisoned during the Independence
Movement and suffered torture. Later to
become an Indian Statesman, Politician
and
Union
Cabinet
Minister
in
Independent India. Known as "Maker of
Modern Saurashtra", "Architect of
Modern India", "Builder of Indian
Industry".

Manubhai
Shah

Bhikaiji Cama
Joseph
Baptista
U.N. Dhebar
Pujya Mota
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
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Name

Place

Deeds

Maneklal
Munshi
Shankarlal
Banker
Dula
Kag

Bhaya

Shankarlal
Parikh

Kheda Satyagraha by Sjt. Shankarlal


Parikh of Kathlal, Kheda.

Usha Mehta
Samaldas
Gandhi
Nana Patil
Jamnalal Bajaj
Prabhudas
Patwari
Achyut
Patwardhan
Babubhai
Vaidya

P.

Shirishkumar
Mehta
Pherozeshah
Mehta
Gokulbhai
Bhatt
Vasudev
Balwant
Phadke

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Indian revolutionary and is widely


regarded as the father of the armed
struggle for India's independence.

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Leaders from the South India
Name

Place

U. Muthuramalingam
Tamil Nadu
Thevar

Deeds

[Ukkirapandi
Muthuramalinga
Thevar
(October 30, 1908 October
30, 1963), also known as
Pasumpon Muthuramalingam
Thevar,
was
an
Indian
politician. He became the
leader of the All India
Forward Bloc in Tamil Nadu,
and was national deputy
chairman of the party from
1952
onwards.
He
was
elected thrice to parliament

V.V.S.Aiyar

Alluri Sita Rama Raju

Andhra Pradesh

Amarajeevi
Sreeramulu

Andhra Pradesh

Potti

Chakravarti
Rajgopalachari

Tamil Nadu

Sardar Vedaratnam

Kayyar Kinhanna Rai

Krishna Menon

Mathai Manjooran

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Name

Place

Deeds

Tiruppur Kumaran

Tamil Nadu

Kumaran
founded
Desa
Bandhu Youth Association.
He gave his life defending the
Indian flag.

K. Kamaraj

Tamil Nadu

M. Bhakthavatsalam

Tamil Nadu

Tanguturi Prakasam

Andhra Pradesh

A.
J.
Anaparambil

John,

Pattabhi Sitarammiaya

Kandukuri
Veeresalingam

Sarojini Naidu

Sarvapalli
Radhakrishnan

S. K. Amin

V.O.
Pillai

Chidambaram

Tamil Nadu

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He
launched
the
first
indigenous Indian shipping
service between Tuticorin and
Colombo with the Swadeshi
Steam Navigation Company,
competing against British

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Name

Place

Deeds
ships.

Subramanya Bharathy Tamil Nadu

Vanchinathan

Poet

Tamil Nadu

Thillaiaadi Valliammai Tamil Nadu

G. Subramania Iyer

Tamil Nadu

T.Sadasivam

Tamil Nadu

J. C. Kumarappa

O.
P.
Ramaswamy
Madras presidency
Reddiyar

P. Kakkan

Madras presidency

A. Vaidyanatha Iyer

Tamil Nadu

R.
Chidambara
Tamil Nadu
Bharathi

Chempakaraman Pillai

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Went to Berlin, Germany to


organise an army to declare
war against the British for
India's
freedom
During
the Indian
Independence
Movement.

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Name

Place

Subramanya Siva

Tamil Nadu

C. Subramaniam

Tamil Nadu

Deeds

He was a close follower of


Gokhale.
In
1924,
he
accompanied Annie Besant
on a visit to England
demanding Home Rule for
India.

V. S. Srinivasa Sastri

He also participated in the


first and second round table
conferences.
V. Kalyanasundaram
Kittur Chennamma

Karnataka

Kalki Krishnamurthy

Tamil Nadu

Armed rebellion against the


British

P. Varadarajulu Naidu
Rani
Velu
Nachiyar andMaruthu Sivaganga Tamil Nadu
Pandiyar

Armed
British

rebellion

against

V. Subbiah

Puducherry

Veerapandiya
Kattabomman

Panchalankurichi,Tamil Armed
Nadu
British

rebellion

against

Dheeran Chinnamalai Erode, Tamil Nadu

Armed
British

rebellion

against

Muthulakshmi Reddi

Social reformer, the first


woman legislator in British
India, the first Chairperson of
the State Social Welfare
Advisory Board.

Lakshmi Sahgal

Commander of the Rani of


Jhansi Regiment of the INA
and her role as a minister in

G. A. Natesan

Madras presidency

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Name

Place

Deeds
Subhas Bose's
government

Azad

Hind

Subramanya Bharathi Tamil Nadu

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