Nov 9, 2011 | Incredible India

Bagha Jatin

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Bagha Jatin Date of Birth : Dec 7, 1879 Date of Death : Sep 10, 1915 Place of Birth : Nadia district Bagha Jatin, born Jatindranath Mukherjee was a Bengali Indian revolutionary activist against British rule. He was one of the leaders of the Yugantar party that was the main association of revolutionaries in Bengal, and was responsible for the planned German Plot during World War I. Jatin was born in Kayagram, a village in the Kushtia subdivision of Nadia district in what is now Bangladesh....

Khudiram Bose

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Khudiram Bose Date of Birth : Dec 3, 1889 Date of Death : Aug 11, 1908 Place of Birth : Bengal Khudiram Bose was an Indian freedom fighter, one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement. Bose was born on 3rd December 1889 in the village Bahuvaini in Medinipur district of Bengal. His father Trailokyanath Basu was the Tahsildar of the town of the Nadazol prince. His mother Lakshmipriya Devi was a pious lady, who was well known for her virtuous life and generosity....

Dinesh Gupta

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Dinesh Gupta Date of Birth : Dec 6, 1911 Date of Death : Jul 7, 1931 Place of Birth : Josholong Dinesh Chandra Gupta or Dinesh Gupta was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. Dinesh Gupta was born on 6 December 1911 in the village of Josholong in Munshiganj District, now in Bangladesh. While he was studying in Dhaka College, Dinesh joined Bengal Volunteers - a group organised by Subhas Chandra Bose in 1928 , at the occasion of Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress....

Badal Gupta

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Badal Gupta Date of Birth : 1912 Date of Death : 1930 Place of Birth : Dhaka Badal Gupta was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. Badal Gupta was born Sudhir Gupta in the village Purba Shimulia (West Shimulia) in the Vikrampur region of Dhaka District, now in Bangladesh. Badal was greatly inspired towards patriotism by Nikunja Sen, a teacher of the Banaripara School of Vikrampur. Badal joined the Bengal Volunteers (BV) as a member. Bengal Volunteers targetted Col NS Simpson,The...

Benoy Basu

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Benoy Basu Date of Birth : Sep 11, 1908 Date of Death : Dec 13, 1930 Place of Birth : Rohitbhog Benoy Krishna Basu was an Bengali Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. Benoy Basu was born on 11 September 1908, in the village Rohitbhog in the Munshiganj District, now in Bangladesh. His father, Rebatimohan Basu was an engineer. After passing the Matriculation Examination in Dhaka, Benoy enrolled into the Mitford Medical School (now Sir Salimullah Medical College).Under the influence of...

Gopinath Bordoloi

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Gopinath Bordoloi Date of Birth : 1890 Date of Death : 1950 Place of Birth : India Gopinath Bordoloi was the first Chief Minister of the Indian state of Asam, and also a leading Indian freedom-fighter from Assam. After rising through Congress ranks in the 1930s, Bordoloi's biggest battle came as Bengal's Muslim majority wanted to include the overwhelmingly Hindu Assam in a Muslim-majority Pakistan. Organizing protests and engaging the colonial government on the highest level prevented...

Surya Sen

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Surya Sen Date of Birth : - Date of Death : Jan 8, 1934 Place of Birth : India Surya Sen, a teacher by profession,he was a prominent Bengali Indian freedom fighter and was the chief architect of anti-British freedom movement in Chittagong, Bengal (now in Bangladesh). A resident of Noapara under Chittagong, he was initiated into revolutionary ideas in 1916 by one of his teachers while he was a student of BA Class in the Behrampore College. On his return to Chittagong in 1918, he became...

Rabindranath Tagore

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Rabindranath Tagore Date of Birth : May 7, 1861 Date of Death : Aug 8, 1941 Place of Birth : West Bengal Rabindranath Tagore was a rare and great personality. He was a scholar, freedom fighter, writer and painter and above all a humble man. His contributions to Indian Literature was immense. He won the noble prize in 1913 for his collection of well known poems 'Gitanjali'. Tagore was born on May 7, 1861 to Debendranath Tagore and Sharada Devi at Jorasanko in West Bengal. He did his...

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Date of Birth : Nov 11, 1888 Date of Death : Feb 22, 1958 Place of Birth : - Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin, better known as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was a renowned scholar, poet, freedom fighter and leader of the Indian National Congress in India's struggle for Independence. He was well versed in many languages viz. Arabic, English, Urdu, Hindi, Persian and Bengali, and a prolific debater - as depicted by his name, Abul Kalam, which literally means father or lord of...

Chittaranjan Das

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Chittaranjan Das Date of Birth : Nov 25, 1870 Date of Death : Jun 16, 1925 Place of Birth : India Chittaranjan Das (C.R.Das) (popularly called Deshbandhu) was a Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. Educated in England, his public career began in 1909 when he successfully defended Aurobindo Ghosh on charges of involvement in the previous year's Alipore bomb case. He was a leading figure in Bengal during the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1919-1922,...

Bipin Chandra Pal

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Bipin Chandra Pal Date of Birth : Nov 7, 1858 Date of Death : - Place of Birth : Sylhet (Bangladesh) Bipin Chandra Pal was born on November 7, 1858 in Sylhet, (now in Bangladesh), in a wealthy Hindu Kayastha family. His father was Ramchandra Pal. He was a teacher, journalist, orator, writer and librarian who started the journal Bande Mataram. He was one of the trilogy of the three Extremist patriots of the Indian National Congress who had fought and gave his life during Indian independence...

Subhas Chandra Bose

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Subhas Chandra Bose Date of Birth : Jan 23, 1897 Date of Death : Aug 18, 1945 Place of Birth : Orissa 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...

Mahadeo Govind Ranade

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Mahadeo Govind Ranade Date of Birth : - Date of Death : Jan 16, 1901 Place of Birth : - At the age of six, Ranade was sent to a Marathi school in Kolhapur, and in 1851, when he was nine, he was transferred to an English school. Ranade completed his schooling at the Elphinstone Institute, Bombay. His academic performance was so good that within a year he was admitted into the prestigious Elphinstone College, Bombay. Ranade was a scholar. He spent hours reading with utmost concentration,...

Senapati Bapat

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Senapati Bapat Date of Birth : Nov 12, 1880 Date of Death : Nov 28, 1967 Place of Birth : Maharashtra Senapati Bapat was born in Ahmednagar, a district of Maharashtra, on November 12, 1880. He was fearless as a child. Having once almost drowned in a nearby stream, he didn't think twice of venturing into the stream again. He brought this same dedication and fearlessness to the aide of his motherland. Bapat was educated in Edinburgh, Scotland, because he lost a scholarship he...

Kulapati K.M. Munshi

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Kulapati K.M. Munshi Date of Birth : Dec 30, 1887 Date of Death : 1971 Place of Birth : Broach Versatile", "a philosopher in action", "a man of great ideas and great courage", "a multi-faceted genius"-these are the ways in which friends and admirers described Dr. Kanhaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, the founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.The versatility of Munshiji is seen in his roles as lawyer, creative writer, constitution-maker, freedom fighter, administrator, organization-builder and champion...

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah Date of Birth : Dec 25, 1876 Date of Death : Sep 11, 1948 Place of Birth : Karachi Mohammad Ali Jinnah, was an Indian Muslim politician and statesman who led the All India Muslim League and founded Pakistan, serving as its first Governor-General. He is commonly known in Pakistan as Quaid-e-Azam and Baba-i-Qaum ("Father of the Nation"); his birth and death anniversaries are national holidays in Pakistan. Jinnah was born as Mahomedali Jinnahbhai in Wazir Mansion, Karachi....

Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Date of Birth : May 28, 1883 Date of Death : 1966 Place of Birth : Nasik Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, sometimes called Veer Savarkar or Vir Savarkar was an Indian freedom fighter and a Hindu nationalist leader. Vinayak Savarkar was a great orator, prolific writer, historian, poet, philosopher and social worker who devoted his entire life to the cause of the Indian Independence movement. He is regarded by some as one of the greatest revolutionaries in the Indian freedom...

Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar

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Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar Date of Birth : - Date of Death : - Place of Birth : Gujarat Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar was an Indian freedom fighter and the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. Mavlankar hailed from Marathi background but lived and worked in Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat. He was a colleague and close friend of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Mavlankar joined the Indian Independence Movement with the Non-Cooperation Movement. Although he temporarily...

Vinoba Bhave

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Vinoba Bhave Date of Birth : Sep 11, 1895 Date of Death : Nov 15, 1982 Place of Birth : Maharashtra Vinoba Bhave, born Vinayak Narahari Bhave and often called Acharya (In Sanskrit and Hindi means teacher), is considered as a National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. He was born in Gagode, Maharashtra on September 11, 1895 into a pious family of the Chitpavan Brahmin clan. He was highly inspired after reading the Bhagavad Gita, one of the holiest Hindu scriptures...

Vithalbhai Patel

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Vithalbhai Patel Date of Birth : 1871 Date of Death : 1935 Place of Birth : Gujarat Vithalbhai Patel was an Indian legislator and political leader, and co-founder of the Swaraj Party. Born in Nadiad, in the Indian state of Gujarat, Vithalbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was the third of five Patel brothers, four years elder to Vallabhbhai Patel, raised in the village of Karamsad. Vithalbhai educated himself in Nadiad and in Bombay, and worked as a pleader (a junior lawyer) in the courts of Godhra...

Narahar Vishnu Gadgil

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Narahar Vishnu Gadgil Date of Birth : - Date of Death : - Place of Birth : Maharashtra Narahar Vishnu Gadgil was an Indian freedom fighter and one of its chief political leaders in Maharashtra. Upon Indian independence, Gadgil became the Minister for Public Works in the first Indian Cabinet led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. Gadgil's Ministry undertook the project of building a military-calibre road from Pathankot to Srinagar via Jammu in Kashmir, during...

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

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Gopal Krishna Gokhale Date of Birth : May 9, 1866 Date of Death : 1915 Place of Birth : Maharashtra Gopal Krishna Gokhale was born on May 9, 1866, in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, and he became one of the most learned men in India, a leader of social and political reformists and one of the earliest, founding leaders of the Indian Independence Movement. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and the Servants of India Society. The latter was committed to only social reform,...

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