Indian Freedom Movements and Their Leaders
Published on Sep 20, 2020
Preparing of SSC, Bank, or Railway exams? Here, we have enlisted the important freedom movements and their fighters. Go through this list and make notes for future reference.
Important Freedom Fighters and Movements
Freedom Fighter
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Notable Activities/Events
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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- Father of nation
- A civil rights activist in South Africa
- Champaran and Kheda Satyagraha
- Nonviolence
- Civil disobedience
- Quit India movement
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Dr. B R Ambedkar
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- Father of Constitution
- First Law Minister of India
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad
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- First President of The Republic of India
- Leader from Bihar
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Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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- Actively participated in the Civil Disobedience Movement and Quit India Movement
- Unified India
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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- Preeminent fighter
- First Prime Minister of India
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Bhagat Singh
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- Most influential revolutionary
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Rani Gaidinliu
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- Naga spiritual and political leader
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Pingali Venkayya
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- Designer of the flag on which our National Flag is based
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Rani Laxmi Bai
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Veerapandiya Kattabomman
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Mangal Pandey
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Bakht Khan
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Chetram Jatav
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Bahadur Shah Zafar
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Begum Hazrat Mahal
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Asaf Ali
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Ashfaqulla Khan
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Manmath Nath Gupta
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Rajendra Lahiri
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Sachindra Bakshi
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Ram Prasad Bismil
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Roshan Singh
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Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee
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Annie Besant
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- Starting the Home Rule Movement
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Bagha Jatin
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- The Howrah-Shibpur conspiracy case
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Kartar Singh Sarabha
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Basawon Singh (Sinha)
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Senapati Bapat
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- Leader of the Mulshi Satyagraha
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Bhikaji Cama
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- Unfurled the Indian flag at the International Socialist Conference at Stuttgart in Germany, 1907
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Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
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- Founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
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Tirupur Kumaran
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- Founder of the Desa Bandhu Youth Association
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Lakshmi Sahgal
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- Officer of the Indian Army
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Parbati Giri
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- Mother Teresa of Western Orissa.
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Kanneganti Hanumanthu
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Alluri Sitarama Raju
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- Rampa Rebellion 1922-1924
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Sucheta Kriplani
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- 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
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Bhavabhushan Mitra
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Chandra Shekhar Azad
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- Reorganized the Hindustan Republican Association under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) after the death of its founder
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Subhas Chandra Bose
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- Founder of the Indian National Army
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Chittaranjan Das
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- The leader in the Non-cooperation Movement from Bengal and Founder of the Swaraj party
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Prafulla Chaki
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Khudiram Bose
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Madan Lal Dhingra
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- The assassination of Curzon Wyllie
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Surya Sen
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- The mastermind of Chittagong Armoury raid
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Pritilata Waddedar
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- Pahartali European Club attack
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Rash Behari Bose
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Shyamji Krishna Varma
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- Founder of the Indian Home Rule Society, India House, and The Indian Sociologist in London.
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Subodh Roy
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Tanguturi Prakasam
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- The first chief minister of the new Andhra state, created by the partition of Madras State along linguistic lines.
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Ubaidullah Sindhi
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Vasudev Balwant Phadke
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Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
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- One of the leading figures of Hindu Mahasabha and the formulator of Hindu Nationalist Philosophy
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