Personalities

Kunwar Singh

Freedom fighter · 1777 – 1858

Octogenarian leader of the 1857 revolt in Bihar

U Tirot Sing

Freedom fighter · 1802 – 1835

Khasi chief who fought the British in the Anglo-Khasi War

Tantia Tope

Freedom fighter · 1814 – 1859

Guerrilla commander of the 1857 revolt

Begum Hazrat Mahal

Freedom fighter · 1820 – 1879

Led the 1857 revolt in Lucknow

Nana Sahib

Freedom fighter · born 1824

Adopted heir of Baji Rao II who led the 1857 revolt at Kanpur

Dadabhai Naoroji

Freedom fighter · 1825 – 1917

The 'Grand Old Man of India' who formulated the drain theory

Mangal Pandey

Freedom fighter · 1827 – 1857

Sepoy whose attack at Barrackpore heralded the 1857 revolt

Rani Lakshmibai

Freedom fighter · c. 1828 – c. 1858

Rani of Jhansi and heroine of the 1857 revolt

W. C. Bonnerjee

Freedom fighter · 1844 – 1906

First President of the Indian National Congress

Annie Besant

Freedom fighter · 1847 – 1933

Theosophist who launched a Home Rule League in 1916

Surendranath Banerjea

Freedom fighter · 1848 – 1925

Founder of the Indian Association in 1876

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Freedom fighter · 1856 – 1920

Declared 'Swaraj is my birthright' and edited the Kesari

Bipin Chandra Pal

Freedom fighter · 1858 – 1932

Swadeshi leader, the 'Pal' of Lal-Bal-Pal

Madan Mohan Malaviya

Freedom fighter · 1861 – 1946

Founder of Banaras Hindu University

Motilal Nehru

Freedom fighter · 1861 – 1931

Author of the Nehru Report of 1928

Lala Lajpat Rai

Freedom fighter · 1865 – 1928

'Punjab Kesari' who died after a lathi-charge during the Simon Commission protest

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Freedom fighter · 1866 – 1915

Moderate leader and Gandhi's political mentor

Kasturba Gandhi

Freedom fighter · 1869 – 1944

Satyagrahi and wife of Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Freedom fighter · 1869 – 1948

Leader of non-violent satyagraha against British rule

Matangini Hazra

Freedom fighter · c. 1869 – c. 1942

'Gandhi Buri', shot while leading a Quit India procession

Chittaranjan Das

Freedom fighter · 1870 – 1925

'Deshbandhu' who co-founded the Swaraj Party

Birsa Munda

Freedom fighter · 1875 – 1900

Tribal leader of the Ulgulan in Chota Nagpur

Sarojini Naidu

Freedom fighter · 1879 – 1949

The 'Nightingale of India' and first woman governor of an Indian state

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Freedom fighter · 1883 – 1966

Author of 'The Indian War of Independence, 1857'

Rash Behari Bose

Freedom fighter · 1886 – 1945

Revolutionary who founded the Indian Independence League in Japan

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Freedom fighter · 1888 – 1958

Congress president and independent India's first Education Minister

Khudiram Bose

Freedom fighter · 1889 – 1908

Teenage revolutionary executed after the Muzaffarpur bombing

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Freedom fighter · 1890 – 1988

'Frontier Gandhi' who led the Khudai Khidmatgars

Alluri Sitarama Raju

Freedom fighter · 1897 – 1924

Leader of the Rampa Rebellion of 1922-24

Ram Prasad Bismil

Freedom fighter · 1897 – 1927

Leader of the Kakori train action, hanged in 1927

Subhas Chandra Bose

Freedom fighter · 1897 – 1945

'Netaji' who led the Azad Hind Fauj (INA)

Udham Singh

Freedom fighter · 1899 – 1940

Shot Michael O'Dwyer in London to avenge Jallianwala Bagh

Ashfaqulla Khan

Freedom fighter · 1900 – 1927

Kakori conspirator hanged at Faizabad

Potti Sriramulu

Freedom fighter · 1901 – 1952

Died fasting for a separate Andhra State

Jayaprakash Narayan

Freedom fighter · 1902 – 1979

Leader of the 'Total Revolution' movement of 1974

Chandrashekhar Azad

Freedom fighter · 1906 – 1931

HSRA revolutionary who died fighting in Alfred Park, Allahabad

Bhagat Singh

Freedom fighter · 1907 – 1931

Revolutionary hanged in 1931 after the Central Assembly bombing

Aruna Asaf Ali

Freedom fighter · 1909 – 1996

Hoisted the Congress flag at Gowalia Tank on 9 August 1942

Rani Gaidinliu

Freedom fighter · 1915 – 1993

Naga spiritual and political leader who resisted British rule

Kanaklata Barua

Freedom fighter · 1924 – 1942

Teenage martyr of the Quit India Movement in Assam