This is a listing of people who campaigned against foreign domination and cultural imposition on the Indian sub-continent. In India such individuals are often referred to as freedom fighterss. The Contras were often referred to as Freedom Fighters by US President Ronald Reagan. ...

Soon after the Europeans reached the Indian shores, with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in 1498 at Kappad shore at the port of Kozhikode in Kerala, segments of the indigenous population began intermittent rebellions against foreign powers and their cultural values. For other uses, see Vasco da Gama (disambiguation). ... 1498 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kappad, or Kappakadavu locally, is famous as the beach near Calicut, India, where the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama landed on May 27, 1498. ... , For the district with the same name, see Kozhikode District. ... , Kerala ( ; Malayalam: കേരളം; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India. ...

Initially these revolts were by Arabs, Jews, Chinese traders, and local merchants as a rebellion against the monopolistic way of trading by Portuguese. Later many of the revolts were over cultural clashes including religious beliefs, taxation, administrative power, etc. These revolts occurred against various Europeans powers, but mainly against Britain, the primary occupier. Languages Arabic other minority languages Religions Predominantly Sunni Islam, as well as Shia Islam, Greek Orthodoxy, Greek Catholicism, Roman Catholicism, Alawite Islam, Druzism, Ibadi Islam, and Judaism Footnotes a Mainly in Antakya. ...

16th Century

Murteen Deluu - led rebellion against the British rule. consisted mainly of peasants.^{[citation needed]}

17th Century

18th Century

• Kanhoji Angre
• Abbe Faria
• Tipu Sultan - Mysore
• Pazhassi Raja
• Veerapandiya Kattabomman - Panchalankurichi,Tamil Nadu
• Puli Devar - Nerlkaattum Seval , Tamil Nadu
• Maruthu Pandiyar - Kalaiyar kovil, Tamilnadu

Kanhoji Angre or Conajee Angria or Sarkhel Angre (? – 1729) was the first notable chief of the Maratha Navy in 18th century India. ... Abb Faria (1766-1814) was an Indo- Portuguese monk who was one of the pioneers of the scientific study of hypnotism, following on from the work of Franz Anton Mesmer. ... Portrait of Tippu Sultan, 1792 Tippu (Tips) Sultan (full name Sultan Fateh Ali Tippu), also known as the Tiger of Mysore (November 20, 1750, Devanahalli – May 4, 1799, Srirangapattana), was the first son of Haidar Ali by his second wife, Fatima or Fakhr-un-nissa. ... Pazhassi kudeeram in Wayanad district of Kerala Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja, known as the Lion of Kerala, was the king of the Kottayam royal family of Malabar in Kerala, India during the last decades of the 18th century. ... Veerapandiya Kattabomman (1959) is a Tamil feature film directed by B. Ramakrishnaiah Panthulu. ... Puli Devar was a poligar (palayakaran) who ruled an area called Nelkatumseval or Avudayapuram situated now in Sankarankoil taluk Tamil Nadu. ... Maruthu Pandiyar brothers (Periya Maruthu & Cinna Maruthu) ruled Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu during the last part of the 18-th century and they were the first to issue a proclamation of independence from British rule from Thiruchi Thiruvarangam Temple, Tamil Nadu on June 10, 1801, which is 56 years before the...

Pre-1857

• Kitturu Chennamma (the first woman independence activist of India)
• Sangoli Rayanna

Kitturu Rani Chennamma (Chennamma, the Queen of Kitturu)(1778 - 1829) was the queen of the prince state Kittur in Karnataka. ... // Sangoli Rayanna was a prominent freedom fighter of Karnataka, India. ...

Rebellion of 1857

• Bakhat Nasar
• Mangal Pandey
• Tantya Tope
• Rani of Jhansi
• Bahadur Shah Zafar
• Azimullah Khan
• Rae Ahmed Nawaz Khan Kharal

For the Hindi film of the same name, see The Rising (Indian film). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Rani Lakshmi Bai, the queen of Jhansi, a Maratha-ruled princely state of northern India, was one of the great nationalist heroes of the Revolt of 1857, and a symbol of resistance to British rule in India. ... Bahadur Shah II (1775-1862) aka Bahadur Shah Zafar (Zafar was his nom de plume, or takhallus, as an Urdu poet) was the last of the Mughal emperors in India. ... Azimullah Khan Yusufzai (1830 — 1858) also known as Dewan Azimullah Khan or Krantidoot Azimullah Khan was an anglophobe initially appointed Secretary, and later Prime Minister (hence the prefix Dewan) to Nana Sahib Peshwa. ... Rai Ahmed Nawaz Khan Kharal was one of the greatest freedom fighters in the Indian rebellion of 1857. ...

Indian Renaissance

• Brahmo Samaj
• Ramakrishna Mission
• Sri Aurobindo
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• Dayananda Saraswati
• Syed Ahmed Khan
• Swami Vivekananda
• Ramakrishna
• Allama Iqbal

Brahmo Samaj is a social and religious movement founded in Kolkata, India in 1828 by Raja Ram Mohan Roy. ... The Ramakrishna Mission Emblem The Ramakrishna Mission (Bengali: ) is an association founded by Sri Ramakrishnas chief disciple and religious leader, Swami Vivekananda on May 1, 1897. ... Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শ্রী অরবিন্দ Sri Ôrobindo, Sanskrit: श्री अरविन्द Srī Aravinda) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru [1]. After a short political career in which he became one of the leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India... Indian reformer Ram Mohan Roy died in Bristol, England, where this statue of him stands. ... Swami Dayananda Saraswati (दयानन्‍द सरस्‍वती) was born in Tamil Nadu. ... Sir Syed Ahmed Khan Bahadur, GCSI (Urdu: سید احمد خان بہا در; October 17, 1817 – March 27, 1898), commonly known as Sir Syed, was an Indian educator and politician who pioneered modern education for the Muslim community in India by founding the Muhammedan Anglo-Oriental College, which later developed into the Aligarh Muslim University. ... Swami Vivekananda (Sanskrit: , Svāmi Vivekānanda) (January 12, 1863 – July 4, 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta (Bengali: , Nôrendrônath Dôt-tô), was one of the most famous and influential spiritual leaders of the philosophies of Vedanta and Yoga. ... Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Bangla: রামকৃষ্ণ পরমহংস Ramkrishno Pôromôhongsho), born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay (Bangla: গদাধর চট্টোপাধ্যায় Gôdadhor Chôţţopaddhae) [1], (February 18, 1836–August 16, 1886) was a Hindu religious teacher and an influential figure in the Bengal Renaissance of the Nineteenth century. ... Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (November 9, 1877-April 21, 1938) was an important Indian Muslim poet from the colonial era, a philosopher and thinker of Kashmiri origin. ...

Political organizations

• All India Muslim League
• Khudai Khidmatgar
• Khaksar Tehrik
• Gadar Party
• Swaraj Party
• Anushilan Samiti
• Jugantar
• Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
• Bengal Volunteers
• Shiromani Akali Dal
• Unionist Muslim League
• Hindu Mahasabha
• Communist Party of India
• All India Forward Bloc
• Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
• Indian Liberal Party

Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the Great Leader of the Muslim League The All India Muslim League was a political party in British India was the driving force behind the creation of a Muslim state on the Indian subcontinent. ... An old red shirt activist, picture taken by Mukulika Banerjee: The Pathan Unarmed Khudai Khidmatgar (Pashto: خدای خدمتگر) literally translates as the servants of God. ... The Gadar Party was an Indian political party that sought political freedom for India from the British Raj by espousing revolution. ... Swaraj Party, a political party of colonial India, was organized in 1923 by Deshbandhu Chitaranjan Das (1870-1925) and Motilal Nehru (1861-1931), to participate in legislative councils. ... Anushilan Samiti was the principal secret revolutionary organisation operating in Bengal in the first quarter of the 20th century. ... Jugantar or Yugantar (nearest English word epoch-making) was one of the secret revolutionary organisations operating in Bengal for Indian independence. ... The Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) was a Indian independence Association led by revolutionaries Bhagat Singh and Chandrasekar Azad. ... Bengal Volunteers was an underground revolutionary group against the British rule of India. ... Akali Dal, also termed as Shiromani Akali Dal (Akali Religious Party), is a Sikh political party mainly based in Punjab, India. ... The Unionist Muslim League, also known simply as the Unionist party was a political party based in the province of Punjab during British Raj in India. ... Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, a Hindu nationalist organization originally founded in 1915 to counter the Muslim League and the secular Indian National Congress. ... The Communist Party of India (CPI) is a political party in India. ... The All India Forward Bloc is a leftwing nationalist political party in India. ... The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (Hindi: , English: ), also known as the Sangh or the RSS, is a Hindu nationalist organization in India. ... The Liberal Party of India was an organization espousing the liberal, pro-British point of view in the politics of India under the British Raj. ...

Leaders from Bengal and Northeastern India

• Subhas Chandra Bose
• Bipin Chandra Pal
• Chittaranjan Das
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Surya Sen
• Pritilata Waddedar
• Gopinath Bardoloi
• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
• Benoy Basu
• Badal Gupta
• Dinesh Gupta
• Khudiram Bose
• Prafulla Chaki
• Bagha Jatin
• Barin Ghosh
• Rash Behari Bose
• Aurobindo Ghosh
• Hemchandra Das
• Surendranath Banerjee
• Upendranath Bannerjee
• Sarat Chandra Bose
• Pramatha Nath Mitra
• Bhupendra Nath Datta
• Pulin Bihari Das
• Taraknath Das
• Atulkrishna Ghosh
• Ullaskar Dutta

Subhas Chandra Bose, (Bengali: , (January 23, 1897 – presumably August 18, 1945 [although this is disputed]note), generally known as Netaji (lit. ... He was one of the trilogy of the three Extremist patriots of the Indian National Congress who had fought and gave his life during Indias freedom struggle in the first half of the twentieth century. ... Chittaranjan Das (C.R.Das) (popularly called Deshbandhu) (November 25, 1870 - June 16, 1925) was a Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. ... Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed (b. ... (Bengali: , IPA: ) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo Samaj philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ... Indian Postage stamp on Surya Sen Surya Sen, a teacher by profession, was the chief architect of anti-British movement in Chittagong. ... Pritilata Waddedar, Bengali Revolutionary Pritilata Waddedar was a anti-British revolutionary in Bangladesh (then part of Province of Bengal in pre-indepdence India). ... Gopinath Bardoloi was an Indian freedom fighter from Assam. ... Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (May 13, 1905 - February 11, 1977) was President of India of 1974 to 1977. ... Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Chattopadhyay in the original Bengali; Chatterjee as spelt by the British) was an Indian poet and author, most famous as the composer of Vande Mataram. ... Benoy Krishna Basu or Benoy Basu or Benoy Bose (1908-1930) was an Bengali Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. ... Badal Gupta, a Bengali revolutionary in British India Badal Gupta (1912-1930) was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. ... Dinesh Gupta (1911-1931) Dinesh Chandra Gupta or Dinesh Gupta (1911-1931) was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. ... Khudiram Bose An illustration of Khudiram Bose Khudiram Bose (Bengali: ) (1889-1908) was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter, one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement. ... Prafulla Chaki (1888-1908) was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary associated with the Jugantar group of revolutionaries. ... Jatindranath Mukherjee, popularly known as Bagha Jatin Bagha Jatin, born Jatindranath Mukherjee (7 December 1879 – 10 September 1915) was a Bengali Indian revolutionary philosopher against British rule. ... Barindra Kumar Ghosh , or, Barindra Ghosh, or, popularly, Barin Ghosh (5 January 1880- 18 April 1959) was an Indian freedom fighter, revolutionary and journalist. ... Rashbehari Bose (1885-1945) was a revolutionary leader against the British Raj in India and was one of the organisers of the Indian National Army. ... ... Sir Surendranath Banerjee Sir Surendranath Banerjee (November 10, 1848 – August 6, 1925) was one of the earliest Indian political leaders during the British Raj. ... Sarat Chandra Bose (Septem, 1889 - February 20, 1950) was a barrister and Indian freedom fighter. ... Taraknath Das or Tarak Nath Das(15 June, 1884-22 December 1958), anti-British Bengali Indian revolutionary who, as a pioneer in the west coast of North America and Canada, discussed his plans with Tolstoy, while organising the Asian Indian immigrants in favour of a freedom movement. ... Atulkrishna (Atul) Ghosh (1890-1966) was a Bengali Indian revolutionary, member of the Anushilan Samiti, and a leader of the Jugantar movement involved in the Indo-German conspiracy during World War I. // [edit] Early life Atul was born in 1890, in a Hindu middle-class family of the village Jaduboyra... Ullaskar Dutta (1885-1965) was an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. ...

Leaders from Punjab and Northwest India

• Allama Mashriqi
• Allama Iqbal
• Allama Inaitullah Almashriqi
• Lala Lajpat Rai
• Sardul Singh Caveeshar
• Sheikh Abdullah
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Baba Gurdit Singh
• Baba Gurmukh Singh
• Baba Hari Singh Usman
• Baba Jawala Singh
• Baba Kharak Singh
• Baba Sher Singh
• Bal Raj Bhalla
• Baldev Singh
• Balwant Singh
• Banta Singh
• Bhagat Singh
• Bhagwan Singh Longowalia
• Bhagwati Charan
• Bhai Bal Mukand
• Bhai Parmanand
• Bhai Ram Singh
• Kartar Singh Sarabha
• Kartar Singh Jhabbar
• Kedar Nath Saigal
• Krishna Gopal Dutt
• Kishan Singh Gargaj
• Lala Pindi Das
• Mahavarat Vidyalankar
• Tej Bahadur Sapru
• Sardul Singh Caveeshar
• Seth Sant Ram
• Seth Sudarshan
• Sewa Singh Thikriwala
• Shivaram Rajguru
• Sir Sikander Hyat Khan
• Somprakash Shaida
• Sohan Lal Pathak
• Sohan Singh Bhakna
• Sohan Singh Josh
• Sukhdev
• Pahari Gandhi Baba Kanshi Ram
• Udham Singh
• Sarvothaman

Allama Mashriqi (Urdu: علامہ مشرقی) (Inayatullah Khan) (Urdu: عنایت اللہ خان) (born in Amritsar, 25 August 1888; died in Lahore, 27 August 1963) was an Islamic scholar and founder of the Khaksar movement. ... Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Dr. Sir Muhammad Iqbal (November 9, 1877-April 21, 1938) was an important Indian Muslim poet from the colonial era, a philosopher and thinker of Kashmiri origin. ... Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian author and politician who is chiefly remembered as a leader in the Indian fight for freedom from the British Raj. ... Sardul Singh Caveeshar (1886 in Amritsar - 1963) was an Indian newspaper editor, and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Pashto/Arabic: خان عبد الغفار خان) (b. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Baba Gurmukh Singh was born in 1888 at Lalton Khurd, District Ludhiana. ... Baldev Singh was an Indian Sikh political leader, who represented the Punjabi Sikh community in the processes of negotiations that resulted in the independence of India, as well as the Partition of India in 1947. ... Sardarji jokes are a class of jokes based on stereotypes of Sikhs (referred to as Sardarjis). ... Bhagat Singh (Punjabi,Gurmukhi: ਭਗਤ ਸਿੰਘ) (Urdu-Shahmukhi: ) (September 28,[1] 1907–March 23, 1931) was an Indian freedom fighter, considered to be one of the most famous revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. ... Bhai Parmanand was a indian nationalist From a prominent family of the Punjab, descended from the family of the famous Sikh martyr, Bhai Mati Das. ... Kartar Singh Sarabha was an Indian freedom-fighter and a leading luminary of the Ghadar Party, which advocated violent uprisings to free India from Imperial British control. ... Mahavarat Vidyalankar, (also spelled Mahavrat) was a prominent Indian Freedom Fighter and scholar. ... Tej Bahadur Sapru (1875–1949) was a eminent lawyer and leader during Indias struggle against British rule. ... Sardul Singh Caveeshar (1886 in Amritsar - 1963) was an Indian newspaper editor, and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. ... Shivaram Rajguru (1908 - March 23, 1931) was an Indian revolutionary. ... Sikander Hyat Khan was an Indian Muslim political leader in the province of Punjab, when India was a part of the British Empire. ... Baba Sohan Singh Bhakna was as Indian revolutionary and the founding president of the Ghadar Party. ... Sukhdev Thapar (15th May 1907 - March 23, 1931) was an Indian revolutionary. ... Baba Kanshi Ram (11 July 1882 – 15 October 1943) was an Indian poet and independence activist from the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. ... Udham Singh (Punjabi: Hindi:उधम सिंह् ; December 26, 1899 – July 31, 1940), born Sher Singh was a Sikh Punjabi Marxist and nationalist best known for assassinating Michael ODwyer in March 1940 in what has been described as an avengement of the Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre [1]. Singh was also known as Ram...

Leaders from Gujarat and Maharashtra

• Dadabhai Naoroji
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Kasturba Gandhi
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Ravi Shankar Vyas
• Narhari Parikh
• Jivatram Kripalani
• Mahadev Desai
• Manilal Pandya
• Mohanlal Pandya
• Abbas Tyabji
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
• Vithalbhai Patel
• Vinoba Bhave
• Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar
• Mridula Sarabhai
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
• Mohammad Ali Jinnah
• Morarji Desai
• Bhikaiji Cama
• U.N.DHEBAR
• Pujya Mota
• Pandit Shyamji Krishna Varma
• Swami Dayanand Sarswati
• Mahadev Govind Ranade
• Tatia Tope
• Rani Laxmibai
• Narhar Vishnu Gadgil
• Marathas
• Shivaji
• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
• Peshwas
• Jyotiba Phule
• Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj
• Jhansi Ki Rani

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Ravi Shankar Vyas was an Indian freedom fighter and social reformer, hailing from and working in the state of Gujarat. ... Narhari Parikh was an Indian freedom fighter and social reformer, who was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi and the chief architect of the Indian Independence Movement in Gujarat. ... Jivatram Kripalani, also referred to with the prefix Acharya (Teacher: Hindi), was an Indian freedom fighter and political leader, who became a nationwide leader of the Janata Party revolt against the Indian Emergency. ... Mahadev Desai was the personal secretary of Mohandas K. Gandhi for 25 years, from 1917 to Desais death in 1942. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Mohanlal Pandya was an Indian freedom fighter, social reformer and one of the earliest followers of Mahatma Gandhi. ... Abbas Tyabji was an Indian freedom fighter from Gujarat, who was a key ally and supporter of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel during the 1918 Kheda Satyagraha, and the 1928 Bardoli Satyagraha. ... Gopal Krishna Gokhale (गोपाल कृष्‍ण गोखले) born May 9, 1866, in Kolhat, Maharashtra, India was one of the founding social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Empire in India. ... Narahar Vishnu Gadgil was an Indian freedom fighter and one of its chief political leaders in Maharashtra. ... Vithalbhai Patel, an important political leader in the Indian Independence Movement // Early Life 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. ... Vinoba Bhave, born Vinayak Narahari Bhave (September 11, 1895 - November 15, 1982) often called Acharya (In Sanskrit and Hindi means teacher), is considered as a National Teacher of India and the spiritual successor of Mahatma Gandhi. ... Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar was an Indian freedom fighter and the first Speaker of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India. ... Mridula Sarabhai was born (1911) in Ahmedabad, India to an affluent business family. ... Vinayak Damodar Savarkar Vināyak Dāmodar Sāvarkar (Marathi: विनायक दामोदर सावरकर) (May 28, 1883 – February 26, 1966) was an Indian politician and activist, who is credited with developing the Hindu nationalist political ideology Hindutva. ... office: 1st Governor-General of Pakistan Term of office: August 14, 1947 – September 11, 1948 Succeeded by: Khawaja Nazimuddin Date of birth: December 25, 1876 Place of birth: Wazir Mansion, Karachi Wives: Emibai 1892–1893, Rattanbai Petit 1918–1929 Children: daughter Dina Wadia Date of Death: September 11, 1948 Place... Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (Hindi: ) (February 29, 1896 – April 10, 1995) was an Indian freedom fighter and the first Prime Minister that did not belong to the Indian Congress Party. ... Bhikaiji Rustom Cama (Madam Cama, Madame Cama) (September 24, 1861 - August 13, 1936) was a prominent figure in the Indian Nationalist Movement. ... Image:Normal PujyaSriMota. ... 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Leaders from South India

• Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
• Kayyara Kinyanna Rai
• Krishna Menon
• Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi
• Mathai Manjooran
• P. J. Sebastian
• Pattabhi Sitarammiaya
• Sarojini Naidu
• Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
• Srinivasa Iyengar
• V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
• Kodi kaatha kumaran

Chakravarti Rajgopalachari (1876-1972), fondly known as Rajaji, was a major national leader of the Indian National Congress and the Indian Independence Movement. ... Kayyara Kinyanna Rai (Kannada:ಕಯ್ಯಾರ ಕಿಞ್ಞಣ್ಣ ರೈ) is a Kannada poet and Indian freedom fighter who was born and resides in the Kasargod district of the state of Kerala, India. ... V.K. Krishna Menon Vengalil Krishnan (V.K.) Krishna Menon (May 3, 1897 - October 6, 1974) was an Indian nationalist and politician. ... Subramanya Bharathi 1882 - 1921 Subramanya Bharathi (Tamil: ) (December 11, 1882 - September 11, 1921) was a Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu, India, freedom fighter and reformer. ... Mathai Manjooran ( b. ... P. J. Sebastian (Pullamkalam Joseph Sebastian) Indian freedom fighter and social activist from Changanacherry, Kerala. ... Dr Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya was born on 24th November 1880 in Gundugolanu village, West Godavari District in Andhra Pradesh, India. ... Sarojini Naidu (February 13, 1879 - March 2, 1949) was known as Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India) and was a child prodigy, freedom fighter and poet. ... Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (September 5, 1888 - April 17, 1975) is best known as the man who introduced the thinking of western idealist philosophers into Indian thought. ... S. Srinivasa Iyengar (1874-1941) was a distinguished lawyer, Indian freedom fighter and political leader. ... V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, (Tamil: வ. உ. சிதம்பரம் பிள்ளை) popularly known by his initials, V.O.C. (spelt Vaa. ... Kodi Kaatha kumaran is one of the freedom fighters of the subcontinent of India. ...

Leaders from North and Central India

• Bi Amman
• Maulana Mohammad Ali
• Maulana Shaukat Ali
• Motilal Nehru
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Maulana Hasrat Mohani
• Kamla Nehru
• Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
• Rafi Ahmad Kidwai
• Hafiz Mohammed Ibrahim
• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Acharya Narendra Deva
• T A K Sherwani
• Zakir Hussain
• Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Balkrishan Sharma Navin
• Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthy
• Mahavir Tyagi
• K D Malaviya
• Ajit Prasad Jain
• Ram Manohar Lohia
• Chandrasekhar Azad
• Ashfaqullah
• Mohan Lal Gautam
• Jagan Prasad Rawat
• Vijayalaksmi Pandit
• Purushottam Das Tandon
• Seth Govind Das
• Mahavarata Vidylankar

Maulana Mohammad Ali Jouhar (1878 - 4 January 1931), was an Indian Muslim journalist and poet, and was among the leading figures of the Khilafat Movement. ... Maulana Shaukat Ali (Born in 1873) is an Indian nationalist Muslim and freedom fighter. ... The family of Motilal Nehru, who is seated in the centre. ... Jawaharlal Nehru (Hindi: , IPA: , from Persian Javâher-e Laal, meaning Red Jewel) (November 14, 1889 – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress, a pivotal figure in the Indian independence movement and the first Prime Minister of Independent India. ... Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed (b. ... Hasrat Mohani Maulana Hasrat Mohani (Urdu: مولانا حسرت موہانی) (b. ... Kamala Nehru Kamala Kaul Nehru (1899–1936) was the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress and first Prime Minister of India. ... Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari was an Indian nationalist and political leader, and former president of the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League during the Indian Independence Movement. ... Rafi Ahmed Kidwai was an Indian freedom fighter and socialist politician. ... Govind Ballabh Pant (September 10, 1887 - March 7, 1961) was a major figure in the Indian Independence Movement. ... Acharya Narendra Deva (1889-1956) was one of the leading theorists of the Congress Socialist Party. ... This article is about Dr Zakir Hussain, the former Indian president. ... Shankar Dayal Sharma (August 19, 1918 - December 26, 1999) was the 9th President of republic of India serving from 1992 to 1997. ... This article is written from a fans point of view, rather than a neutral point of view. ... Mahavir Tyagi (1899 - 1980) was an Indian freedom fighter and famous parliamentarian from the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. ... Ram Manohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader. ... Chandrasekhar Azad चंद्रशेखर आजाद (July 23, 1906 – February 27, 1931) was an Indian revolutionary and the mentor of Bhagat Singh. ... Ashfaqulla Khan (October 22, 1900 - December 19, 1927) was a freedom fighter in Indian independence movement. ... Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit (विजयलक्ष्मी नेहरू पंडित) (1900 - 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician, sister of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and the first female President of the United Nations General Assembly. ... Purushottam Das Tandon (August 1, 1882 – July 1, 1962), was a freedom fighter, social reformer and national political leader of India. ... Seth Govind Das (1896 – 1974) was a freedom fighter and a distinguished parliamentarian. ...

Prominent European activists

• Allan Octavian Hume
• A.G. Horniman
• Annie Besant
• Madeleine Slade
• C. F. Andrews

Allan Octavian Hume (June 6, 1829 - July 31, 1912) son of Joseph Hume was a civil servant in British governed India, and a political reformer. ... A. G. Horniman was a British national who was active in the Indian Independence Movement during the early-20th century. ... Annie Besant Plaque on house in Colby Road, London SE19 where Annie Besant lived in 1874. ... Formerly Miss Slade, Mirabhen admired Gandhi so much that she dropped everything in London to come stay with him. ... Charles Freer Andrews (1871 - 1940) was an English priest who admired the philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi and worked with him in the Indian civil rights struggle in South Africa and in the Indian Independence Movement. ...

References

• Indian Independence Movement, Indian Nationalism