List of Freedom Fighters of India: The British East India Company ruled India for almost 100 years from 1757 to 1857. For the first time, India Freedom Fighters struggled for Independence at mass level in 1857 which was named Indian Rebellion of 1857 or First War of Independence or Sepoy Mutiny which was lead by Mangal Pandey. The Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi, Bahadur Shah, Nana Saheb, Tatya Tope, Kunwar Singh, Man Singh, Bakht Khan, Begum Hazrat Mahal and many more freedom fighters fight together against British East India Company for freedom of India.
The India was under British Rule from 1857 to 1947. The Indian free fighters put efforts and struggled and even scarified their lives for the freedom of India from British rule. In 1900s for the first time, Bal Gangadhar Tilak started a campaign to boycott British goods and use only Indian goods.
Mahatma Gandhi declared strike against Rowlett Act in 1919 and Lala Lajpat Rai protested against Simon Commission in 1928. Bhagat Singh attempted to bomb the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi and participated in various revolt activities against British Raj. Mahatma Gandhi started Non-Cooperation movement in 1920 and Quit India Movement in 1942. Finally with all efforts of Indian freedom fighters, India got Independence on 15 August 1947. The list of Freedom Fighters of India is given below.
List of Freedom Fighters of India
On 15 August 2022 India commemorate, its 75 Independent Day. The theme of this Independence day is "Nation First, Always First". PM Modi has announced Azadi ka Amrit Mohatsav and Har Ghar Tiranga campaign from 13 August to 15 August 2022. Indian Freedom Fighters List with details of their notable activities is given in the table.
Name of Freedom Fighter | Notable Activities |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | Father of nation Civil rights activist in South Africa Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha Non-violence Civil disobedience Quit India movement |
Dr. B R Ambedkar | Father of Constitution First Law Minister of India |
Dr. Rajendra Prasad | First President of The Republic of India Leader from Bihar |
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | Actively participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement and Quit India Movement Unified India |
Jawaharlal Nehru | Pre-eminent fighter First Prime Minister of India |
Bhagat Singh | Most influential revolutionary |
Rani Gaidinliu | Naga spiritual and political leader |
Pingali Venkayya | Designer of the flag on which our National Flag is based |
Rani Laxmi Bai | Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Veerapandiya Kattabomman | Was an 18th-century Tamil chieftain. He refused to accept the sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged war against them. He was captured by the British and was hanged on 16 October 1799 |
Mangal Pandey | Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Bakht Khan | Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Chetram Jatav | Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Bahadur Shah Zafar | Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Begum Hazrat Mahal | Indian Rebellion of 1857 |
Asaf Ali | Indian national movement |
Ashfaqulla Khan | Kakori conspiracy |
Manmath Nath Gupta | Kakori conspiracy |
Rajendra Lahiri | Kakori conspiracy |
Sachindra Bakshi | Kakori conspiracy |
Ram Prasad Bismil | Kakori conspiracy |
Roshan Singh | Kakori conspiracy |
Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee | Kakori conspiracy |
Annie Besant | Starting the Home Rule Movement |
Bagha Jatin | The Howrah-Shibpur conspiracy case |
Kartar Singh Sarabha | Lahore conspiracy |
Basawon Singh (Sinha) | Lahore conspiracy case |
Senapati Bapat | Leader of the Mulshi Satyagraha |
Bhikaji Cama | Unfurled the Indian flag at the International Socialist Conference at Stuttgart in Germany, 1907 |
Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi | Founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan |
Tirupur Kumaran | Founder of the Desa Bandhu Youth Association |
Lakshmi Sahgal | Officer of the Indian Army |
Parbati Giri | Mother Teresa of Western Orissa |
Kanneganti Hanumanthu | Palnadu Rebellion |
Shyamji Krishna Varma | Founder of the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London |
Alluri Sitarama Raju | Rampa Rebellion 1922-1924 |
Sucheta Kriplani | Chief Minister of an Indian state (UP) Founder of the All India Mahila Congress 1940 She sang Vande Mataram in the Constituent Assembly on 15th August 1947 |
Bhavabhushan Mitra | Ghadar Mutiny |
Chandra Shekhar Azad | Reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) after the death of its founder |
Subhas Chandra Bose | Was twice elected President of the Indian National Congress. The INA revealed Subhash Bose’s greatness as a military leader and an organiser. (He was not the founder of INA). |
Chittaranjan Das | Leader in Non-cooperation Movement from Bengal and Founder of Swaraj party |
Prafulla Chaki | The Muzaffarpur killing |
Khudiram Bose | The Muzaffarpur killing |
Madan Lal Dhingra | The assassination of Curzon Wyllie |
Surya Sen | Mastermind of Chittagong Armoury raid |
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar | One of the leading figures of Hindu Mahasabha and the formulator of Hindu Nationalist Philosophy |
Rash Behari Bose | Indian National Army |
Subodh Roy | Tebhaga movement |
Ubaidullah Sindhi | Silk Letter Conspiracy |
Tanguturi Prakasam | The first chief minister of the new Andhra state, created by the partition of Madras State along linguistic lines. |
Indian Freedom Fighters Names List
The below list of Freedom Fighters of India who have fought bravely with Britishers to get independence.
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Kunwar Singh
- Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
- Dadabhai Naoroji
- Tantia Tope
- K. M. Munshi
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Bhagat Singh
- Lal Bahadur Shastri
- Nana Sahib
- Chandra Shekhar Azad
- C. Rajagopalachari
- Abdul Hafiz Mohamed Barakatullah
- Ashfaqulla Khan
- Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
- Lala Lajpat Rai
- Ram Prasad Bismil
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- Rani Lakshmi Bai
- Bipin Chandra Pal
- Chittaranjan Das
- Begum Hazrat Mahal
- Subhash Chandra Bose
- Mangal Pandey
- Sukhdev
Indian Freedom Fighters List PDF
Download list of Freedom Fighters of India from 1857 to 1947 pdf from below link.
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State Wise List of Freedom Fighters Pension Under SSSY
Download name wise and state wise pdf list of freedom fighters of India and eligible dependents drawing Samman Pension under SSY from below link.
https://www.mha.gov.in/sites/default/files/UpdatedlistofSSSYBeneficiaries_04022022.pdf
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