1. Born in June 1908 in Ambala, Sucheta Kriplani arouse to become the first Woman Chief Minister of a state in India in the year 1963.. She was greatly inspired by the works of Mahatma Gandhi and actively involved in Quit India movement..In 1946, she went to Noakhali with Gandhiji and worked to combat the sufferings of the Indian people. She was elected to the constituent assembly and took the pride of singing the National Song in the independence session of the constituent assembly on august 15, 1947.. She died due to a massive heart attack on december 1, 1974.
2. Born as Kumaresan in Chennaimalai, Erode Dist, in 1904, Tiruppur Kumaran became a notable revolutionary in the Indian freedom struggle from the south! Kumaran founded the Desa Bandhu Youth Association in Tirrupur and was the town's contribution to the Congress movement..He died from injuries sustained from a police assault during a protest march against British Colonial Government on January 11, 1932. He gave up his life defending the congress Tri colour flag and is known by the epithet, KODI KATHTHA KUMARAN (Kumaran who saved the Flag)
3. Also known as Madam Cama, Bhikaji Cama was born on September 24, 1861 in a rich Parsi family in Bombay.. She was an outstanding lady of great courage, integrity and passion for freedom.. She was constantly making people realize the importance of independence both in India and England. Britishers upleased with her popularity concocted an assassination, but fortunately Cama who was aware of the planned murder escaped to France. There, she made her house a secret shelter and helped revolutionaries by sending materials and money across the seas when required. In 1905, she along with her friends designed India's first tri color flag with saffron, white , green and red stripes bearing the immortal words - Bande Mataram. The flag was raised on 22nd of August, 1907 in Stuttgart, Germany. Cama, popularly known as the "Mother of Indian Revolution", returned to India after 35 years fighting for freedom from foreign lands and died on august 13, 1936
4. Born on december 3, 1888 in the village of Medinipur in Bengal, Khudiram Bose was one of the youngest revolutionaries of India's freedom struggle.. He was a devoted Hindu and was fond of the words Vande Mataram since childhood. To learn about the revolutionaries and their activities he joined Jugantar - The party of the Revolutionaries. Bose, at the age of 16, threw the first bomb near a police station where many officials were killed. He along with his friend planned for another bomb attack on the Chief Presidency Magistrate, Kingsford, but was arrested on charges of Bomb attack and was sentenced to death on August 11, 1908. He dies with holy book of Bhagavad Gita in his hand and amiling with the slogan Vande Mataram in his lips!
5. Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi, also known as Kulapati Munshi was born on December 30 1887 in Bharuch, Gujarat.. From Childhood he was devoted to Sir Aurobindo Ghosh and was attracted to armed Rebellion against the British. Later during 1912-13, he turned towards non violence and was influenced by the Home Rule Movement of Annie Besant. He campaigned for the cause of Widow Remarriage through out India. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1917 and participated in various activities of Mahatma Gandhi. He personally Believed that only education can free India from the hands of the British and founded the well-known Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in 1938. He also served as a prominent leader in politics both before and after freedom. Till his death in February 8, 1971, he devoted all his energy in building up the Bhavan as a premier cultural organization in the country.
6. Born on may 15, 1907 in Ludhiana, Sukhdev Thapar was a famous revolutionary who sacrificed his life for freedom. Since Childhood he had witnessed the authorities on Indians and grew up with a firm decision to set India free from British dominion. Sukhdev was a member of Hindustan Socialist republican association. He along with Bhagat Singh and Shivram Rajguru assassinated the Deputy Superindent Saunder in 1928. He was an active participant in Lahore Conspiracy case, 1928 and Prison Hunger strike, 1929. The three brave revolutionaries were hung to death on march 23, 1931. Their bodies were secretly cremated on the banks of river Sutlej.
7. Vanchinathan was born in 1886 in Shenkottai, in then Madras province. He was a notable freedom activist from South India and a close associate of V.O Chidambaram Pillai. While doin his graduation in Thiruvananthapuram. he was involved in the process of handling the western weapons which was not used to Indian Sepoys. He is known for assassinating Ashe, the district collector of Tirunelveli. He shot Ashe on june 17, 1911 at point blank range at Maniayachi Railway station. He then shot himself with same pistol not wanting himself to be caught by the Bristish Guards. He had a note in his hand stating that George V will be executed in the same way if he crowns himself as the King of a nation which was ruled by Ram, Krishna, Guru Govind, Arjuna and Sivaji. This message provoked the indians from the south to revolt against the British.
8. Madan Lal Dhingra was born in Punjab on 18 September 1883 to a prosperous Hindu Khatri family. He started his graduation in Mechanical Engineering at University College, London. While studying, Dhingra came into contact with Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who was impressed by Dhingra's intense patriotism. During the early 1900, Dhingra was enraged by the execution of Khudiram Bose, Kannai Dutt and Pandit Kanshi Ram in India. On the evening of July 1, 1909 when a large number of Indians and Englishmen had gathered to attend the annual day function of Indian National Association, Dhingra shot sir Curzon Wyllie, the political aide to the secretary of state for India. He the shot Curzon's doctor, who was trying to save him. Before he could turn his pistol on himself to commit suicide, he was arrested and was tried on 23rd of july in the Old Bailey and was sentenced to death on 17 august 1909. His body was found accidently by the British authorities who were trying find the remains of Shaheed Udham Singh and was handed over to India on 13 December 1976.
9. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was born on 28 may 1883, in Bhagar, Maharashtra. He was a great revolutionary, poet and a politician. Savarkar's activities began when studying in India and England, where he was associated with India house. He founded the Abhinav Bharat Society in India and Free India Society in England. He was arrested in Marsellies, France in 1909 while hiding at the Madam Cama's house for his association in the assassination of Curzon and was sentenced to two life sentences amounting to 50 years' imprisonment and moved to Cellular Jail. While in Jail, Savarkar wrote many books criticizing Indian National Congress and Gandhiji for the acceptance of India's partition. He was even accused in the assassination of Gandhiji and was acquitted as the charges could not be proven. The airport in Port Blair has been named Veer Savarkar International Airport in memory of him. he died on february 26, 1966 but he was not given a royal cremation because of his charges against the assassination of Gandhiji.
10. Jatindranath Mukherjee, popularly known as Bagha Jatin was born december 7, 1879 in Kushtia, Bengal. He was the principal leader of Jugantar party that was the central association of revolutionaries in Bengal. He was responsible for the planned German plot during world war I. He also founded the Anushilan Samiti in 1900. He along with Barindra Ghosh, set up a bomb factory near Deoghar and helped Germany in world war I against Britain. He was the master mind behiond Germany's ally against the British, for he thought that Germany was the only force which could defeat England. But the plot leaked through Czech revolutionaries and the British Government came to know about this. The contingent of the British planned for an assassination of Jatin and approached Jatin and the 4 revoutionaries with him in a pincers movement. A gunfight ensued, lasting 75 minutes killed two revolutionaries and left Jatin seriously wounded. Jatin died in Balasore Hospital, the next day on 10 September 1915.
The famous writer Ross Hedvicek described these events in his book "SPY AND COUNTER SPY" and claims that if the plot had been successful, today nobody would have heard about Mahatma Gandhi, and Jatin would have been the father of Indian nation.
11. Kartar Singh Sarabha was born on 1896 in Ludhiana, Punjab. He started his career as a daily-paid worker in San Francisco, USA. There he found that all the Indians were ill treated because the Americans thought that the Indians belonged to a slave country. This incident had a great effect on Sarabha. On april 21, 1913, the Indians in California formed the Ghadar party and started publishing a paper named Gadhar. Srarabah did all the works the start of world war I in 1914, the British became thoroughly engrossed in the war efforts. Thinking it to be the right time, Kartar Singh reached Clacutta, via Colombo in November 1914. With a letter of introduction from Bagha Jatin, Kartar met Rash Behari Bose at Benares to inform him the arrival of twenty thousand more gadhar members to declare a war against the British from inside India while the German take on the British from outside as per Jatin's plan. It was at this time, Kirpal Singh, a police informer in the ranks of Gadhar party informed the Government of the planned revolt. The Government disarmed the native soldiers and the revolt failed. Kartar went underground and came back on march 2, 1915 and started propagating rebellion amongst the armymen, but was soon arrested and was sentenced to death on September 13, 1915 in Lahore for his involvement in Lahore conspiracy case 1914-1915
13. V.K.Krishna Menon was born on 3 may, 1896 in Calicut, Madras Presidency. While studying in Madras Law College, he became involved in theosophy and was actively associated with Annie Besant and the Home Rule Movement. He was a leading member of the "Brothers of Service" founded by Annie Besant and traveled to Englandin 1924. There, Menon became a passionate proponent of India's freedom working as a journalist and as secretary of the India league from 1929-47. He was a close friend of Jawaharlal Nehru and helped in publishing the ideas of Indian National Congress in India and England. After India attained independence, Menon was appointed as high commissioner of United Kingdom till 1952. In 1952, he was appointed as the Indian ambassador to the United Nations and framed the policy of Non-alignment, loudly criticizing the United States. On 23 January, 1957, Menon delivered the famous unprecedented 8-hour speech defending India's stand on Kashmir; to date, the speech is the longest ever delivered in the United Nations Security Council. He was elected as a member of Lok Sabha and assumed office a the Union Defense Minister from1957-62. Menon died at the age of 78 on October 6, 1974 whereupon the then Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi remarked that "a volcano is extinct".
Let us safeguard the freedom got from sacrifice of thousands of such great leaders by not letting another Chain of bondage in the name of CORRUPTION!!
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