After over a century of revolution and struggle, India achieved independence from British rule on August 15, 1947. Many Indians sacrificed their lives in the fight for freedom, including famous freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Rani Laxmi Bai, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who all played pivotal roles in India's independence movement through acts of both violence and non-violence.
After over a century of revolution and struggle, India achieved independence from British rule on August 15, 1947. Many Indians sacrificed their lives in the fight for freedom, including famous freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Rani Laxmi Bai, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who all played pivotal roles in India's independence movement through acts of both violence and non-violence.
After over a century of revolution and struggle, India achieved independence from British rule on August 15, 1947. Many Indians sacrificed their lives in the fight for freedom, including famous freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad, Rani Laxmi Bai, Subhas Chandra Bose, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who all played pivotal roles in India's independence movement through acts of both violence and non-violence.
British rule on August 15th, 1947. During the struggle of independence each and every Indian played its role in some way or other. Most of them even sacrificed their life in the fight for freedom for our beloved country and are known as freedom fighters of India. With the true spirit and courage they faced various tortures and hardships to earn us freedom. Among the various pioneers of the revolution the most famous freedom fighters are mentioned below. Considered as one of the most Freedom Fighters of India , Bhagat Singh famous was an Indian revolutionary. He was born in a Sikh family of Sardar Kishan Singh and Vidyavati on September 27, 1907 in Khatkar Kalan Village, Punjab. Both his father and his uncle were freedom fighters of India, which imbibed in him feelings of patriotism. He joined Non-Cooperation movement in but later became violent as a result 1921 Chauri-Chaura Massacre. of He later formed the “Naujawan Bharat Sabha”, to create a feeling of patriotism among the youth in Punjab. Soon after he came in contact with Chandrashekhar Azad and planned to kill General Scott who was responsible for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. He instead killed Superintendent Saunders and left for Lahore to escape punishment. On April 18, 1929 he threw a bomb in Central Legislative Assembly and was sentenced to death charge on March 23rd, 1931. A fearless revolutionary, Chandrashekhar Azad was born on July 23, 1906 to Pandit Sita ram and Jagrani Devi, in Jhabua District of Madhya Pradesh. After completing the schooling from Bhavra district, he moved to Varanasi for higher studies. Azad was quite young when he Azad and bhagat singhs was well known joined the freedom struggle as an Freedom Fighters of India in that Decade.He extremist as he believed violence was involved in Kakori Train Robbery Scandal was necessary for freedom. As a and targeted British officials who were revolutionary he known for aggression and torture to Indians. adopted his last name as “Azad” On February 27, 1931 He was backstabbed by one of his associate who informed police which means free, and made a about his whereabouts. In Alfred Park at pledge that British police could not Allahabad he was surrounded by police men. catch him as long as he is alive. He fought bravely for some time and then shot himself to die as “Free Man”. Rani Laxmi Bai was queen of the Jhansi, a the of northernasstate named India. she wasNick Manikarnika, 1828 in a Maharashtrian family born at Kashi (today known as Varanasi). She was married to Raja Gangadhar Rao Niwalkar, the king of Jhansi in 1842. Under the rule of Lord Dalhousie, the then governor general of India, the British government ordered to annex all princely without any male heir. state Rani laxmi Bai was then a widow and had an adopted son, Damodar Rao. She refused to surrender Jhansi and called for armed forces. She then fought a two week battle with British army in March 1858, which she lost. She is Popular Women Freedom Fighter of India before 1900.She then rode to Gwalior where again a battle was fought and she died on June 18, 1858. Rani laxmi Bai played a crucial role in the revolt of 1857, which sparked the wave of freedom all over India. Subhas Chandra Bose, also known Netaji, was the son of renowned lawyer as Janaki Nath Bose and Prabhavati devi. He was born on January 23, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa and completed his graduation from Calcutta and left for England in 1919 for further studies. Shaken by the incident of Jalianwala Bagh Massacre he returned India in 1921 and joined Indian National Congress and participated in Disobedience Movement. Civil Not convinced with Non-Violence method of Gandhi Ji, he left for Germany to convince Hitler for help. There he formed Indian National Army (INA) and declared the formation of Azad Hind Government. During the World War II, Japan that was majorly involved in helping INA, surrendered. Somehow Netaji escaped from there but his plane crashed on August 17, 1945. His death is still a mystery as his death body is not found after crash till date. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, of Nation”, also known as Mahatama “Father Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869. His father name was Karamchand Gandhi, the Diwan of Porbandar in Gujarat, and mother is Puttlibai. He was married at the age of 13 to Kasturba Makhanji of same age. He was mediocre in his studies and was sent to London to study law. After some practice in Bombay, he went South Africa as a legal advisor for a company. Due to racial discrimination faced by Indians at South Africa, he threw himself in the struggle to secure the rights for Indian people which took almost 25 years. Inspired by various religions he followed the path of “Truth” and “Non-Violence” and returned to India after his struggle in South Africa. He started Non-Cooperation in India and asked people to boycott foreign goods and possessions.His Freedom Fighters spirit using Non violence always taught in books. He later started many other movements and forced British to leave India in 1947. Late on January 30, 1948 he was assassinated by Nathuram