Kartar Singh Sarabha

Kartar Singh Sarabha Date of Birth : 1896 Date of Death : Nov 16, 1915 Place of Birth : Sarabha Revolutionary Kartar Singh, the great devotee of Bellona, the goddess of war, was only twenty years old when he sacrificed himself on the altar of goddess of freedom. There was only one aim of his life, only one desire, only one hope - all that held meaning in his life was revolution. Kartar Singh was born in Sarabha, a village in district Ludhiana, in 1896. He was the only son of his parents....

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Shaheed Udham Singh

Shaheed Udham Singh Date of Birth : Dec 26, 1899 Date of Death : July 31, 1940 Place of Birth : Sunam 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. His father, Tahal Singh, was at that time working as a watchman on a railway crossing in the neighbouring village of Upall. Sher Singh lost his parents before he was seven years and was admitted along with his brother Mukta Singh to the Central Khalsa...

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Madan Lal Dhingra

Madan Lal Dhingra Date of Birth : 1887 Date of Death : Aug 17, 1909 Place of Birth : Punjab Madan Lal Dhingra was an Indian political activist studying in England, where he murdered Sir Curzon Wylie, a British MP, which is hailed as one of the first acts of revolution in the Indian independence movement in the 20th century. Madan Lal Dhingra was born in 1887 to a prosperous Hindu family in the province of Punjab. His father was a wealthy civil surgeon. In 1906, Madan Lal...

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Sikander Hyat Khan

Sikander Hyat Khan Date of Birth : - Date of Death : - Place of Birth : India Sikander Hyat Khan was an Indian Muslim political leader in the province of Punjab, when India was a part of the British Empire. He was the leader of the Unionist Party, an all-Punjab political party formed to represent the concerns and issues of India's Muslims, however opposed to the political separatism and demand for Pakistan of the All India Muslim League, led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Khan led his party in...

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Tej Bahadur Sapru

Tej Bahadur Sapru Date of Birth : Dec 8, 1875 Date of Death : Jan 20, 1949 Place of Birth : Uttar Pradesh 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 8th, 1875 in Aligarh, in what is now the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was born in a Kashmiri Hindu family. He was educated at the Agra College. Sapru worked in the Allahabad High Court as a lawyer where Purushottam...

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Sukhdev

Sukhdev Date of Birth : - Date of Death : Mar 23, 1931 Place of Birth : India Sukhdev was an Indian revolutionary. He is best known as an accomplice of Bhagat Singh and Shivaram Rajguru in the killing of a British police officer in 1928 in order to take revenge for the death of veteran leader Lala Lajpat Rai due to excessive police beating. All three were convicted of the crime and hanged on March 23, 1931....

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Shivaram Rajguru

Shivaram Rajguru Date of Birth : 1908 Date of Death : Mar 23, 1931 Place of Birth : India Hari Shivaram Rajguru was an Indian revolutionary. He is best known as an accomplice of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev in the killing of a British police officer in 1928 in order to take revenge for the death of veteran leader Lala Lajpat Rai due to excessive police beating. All three were convicted of the crime and hanged on March 23, 1931. Rajguru was hiding in Nagpur. He met Dr. K. B. Hedgewar...

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Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh Date of Birth : Sep 27, 1907 Date of Death : Mar 23, 1931 Place of Birth : Jalandhar Bhagat Singh (September 27, 1907 - March 23, 1931) was an Indian revolutionary, considered to be one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle. For this reason, he is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat Singh (the word shaheed means "martyr"). Bhagat Singh was born into a Sikh family to Sardar Kishan Singh and Vidyavati in the Khatkar Kalan village near Banga in the Jalandhar...

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Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Date of Birth : 1890 Date of Death : Jan 20, 1988 Place of Birth : Peshawar Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan born at Hashtnagar in Utmanzai, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, India, 1890 and died in Peshawar, NWFP, Pakistan, 20 January 1988, was a Pashtun (Afghan) political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British rule during the final years of the Empire on the Indian sub-continent. He was a lifelong pacifist and a devout Muslim. He...

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Sheikh Abdullah

Sheikh Abdullah Date of Birth : 1905 Date of Death : 1982 Place of Birth : Kashmir Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah known as Sher-e-Kashmir' (the Lion of Kashmir) (1905-1982) was one of the most important political figures in the modern history of Jammu and Kashmir. Sheikh Abdullah became the Prime Minister of Kashmir soon after its Provisional accession (limited to Defence, Foreign Affairs and Finance and subject to ratification by plebiscite that has till now not taken place) to India....

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Sardul Singh Caveeshar

Sardul Singh Caveeshar Date of Birth : 1886 Date of Death : 1963 Place of Birth : Amritsar Sardul Singh Caveeshar (1886 in Amritsar - 1963) was an Indian freedom fighter and newspaper editor. Educated in Lahore, Caveeshar began his public career in 1913, when he launched the English-language newspaper 'Sikh Review'. An early article in the Sikh Review criticized the demolition of an external city wall during the construction of New Delhi, as the wall had been part of a historic Sikh...

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Lala Lajpat Rai

Lala Lajpat Rai Date of Birth : Jan 28, 1865 Date of Death : Nov 17, 1928 Place of Birth : Moga district Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian politician who is chiefly remembered as a leader in the Indian fight for freedom from the British Raj. The freedom fighter was popularly known as Punjab Kesari (Lion of the Punjab). Rai was born on January 28, 1865 in village Dhudi Ke, in present day Moga district of Punjab, India. He was the eldest son of Munshi Radha Kishan Azad and Gulab Devi. His...

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Muhammad Iqbal

Muhammad Iqbal Date of Birth : Nov 9, 1877 Date of Death : Apr 21, 1938 Place of Birth : India Muhammad Iqbal, was an Indian Muslim philosopher, scholar, poet, lawyer, politician, and reformer who worked for the unity of Muslims of the world, and was the spiritual founder of Pakistan. He produced philosophical works in Urdu, Persian, and English, which have also been translated into many other languages. As a forerunner of the Pakistan Movement, he headed the All-India Muslim League in...

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Srinivasa Iyengar

Srinivasa Iyengar Date of Birth : 1874 Date of Death : May 19, 1941 Place of Birth : Madras S. Srinivasa Iyengar was a distinguished lawyer, Indian freedom fighter and political leader. The son of an orthodox Vaishnava brahmin and respected landowner of Ramanathapuram district, Srinivasa Iyengar was born in 1874 in the erstwhile Madras Presidency. Attending college, he trained to become a lawyer, specializing in constitutional law. Srinivasa Iyengar commenced practice the Madras High...

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Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya

Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya Date of Birth : Nov 24, 1880 Date of Death : - Place of Birth : Andhra Pradesh Dr. Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya born on November 24th, 1880 in Gundugolanu village, West Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh, India was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Pattabhi who had a BA degree in Madras Christian College, fulfilled his ambition to become a medical practitioner by securing a M.B.C.M. degree. He started his...

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Krishna Menon

Krishna Menon Date of Birth : May 3, 1897 Date of Death : Oct 6, 1974 Place of Birth : Kerala Vengalil Krishnan (V.K.) Krishna Menon was an Indian nationalist and politician. Menon was born at Panniyankara in Calicut, Kerala, into the powerful Vengalil family of South India. He was the grandson of the Raja of Kartanad and the first son of a successful lawyer of the Calicut bar, Komath Krishna Kurup, one of Kerala's richest men at the time. Menon had his early education in Tellicherry and...

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C. Rajagopalachari

C. Rajagopalachari Date of Birth : Dec 10, 1878 Date of Death : Dec 25, 1972 Place of Birth : India Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari, known as or Rajaji or C.R., was an Indian lawyer, writer, statesman and a Hindu spiritualist. He was the second Governor-General of independent India. Later he became the Chief Minister of Madras State. At one time considered Mahatma Gandhi's heir, this brilliant lawyer from Salem, Tamil Nadu was regarded in pre-independence years as one of the top five...

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Ambika Chakrobarty

Ambika Chakrobarty Date of Birth : - Date of Death : - Place of Birth : India Ambika Chakrabarty was an Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. Ambika was a member of Chittagong Jugantar party. He took part in the Chittagong armoury raid.He was arrested by the police and was sentenced to death.However, the sentence was later changed to transportation for life to the Cellular jail in Andaman. He later became a member of West Bengal Rajya Sabha in 19...

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Surendranath Banerjea

Surendranath Banerjea Date of Birth : Nov 19, 1848 Date of Death : 1925 Place of Birth : India Surendranath Banerjea was the President of the Indian National Congress twice, in 1895 and 1902. He was largely responsible in canalizing the energy of the youth of Bengal to the service of the Motherland. He founded the Indian Association on July 26, 1876, which he wanted to be the center of an all-India political movement. He was the editor of a paper called "Bengalee" from 1878 and wrote...

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Aravinda Ackroyd Ghosh

Aravinda Ackroyd Ghosh Date of Birth : August 15, 1872 Date of Death : Dec 5, 1950 Place of Birth : Calcutta Aravinda Ackroyd Ghosh was born on August 15, 1872, in Calcutta. His father, Dr. Krishnadhan Ghosh, a civil medical officer in Bengal, added the middle name Ackroyd because a Miss Ackroyd, a visitor from England, was present at his birth. His mother, Swarnalata Devi, was the daughter of nationalist Rajnarayan Bose. Aravinda's father attained his M.D. from the University of Aberdeen...

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Barindra Kumar Ghosh

Barindra Kumar Ghosh Date of Birth : Jan 5, 1880 Date of Death : Apr 18, 1959 Place of Birth : Norwood Barindra Kumar Ghosh was an Indian freedom fighter, revolutionary and journalist. He was one of the founder members of Jugantar, a revolutionary outfit in Bengal. Barindra Ghosh was born at Norwood near London on 5 January 1880. He was the younger brother of Aurobindo Ghosh. He did schooling in Deoghar and joined Patna College. He received military training in Baroda. During this time,(late...

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