LIST OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS FROM INDIA

India’s struggle for Independence has been the essential topic for our preparatory examinations. And we all might have memorised just name for securing marks in the competitive examinations. We search across the notes and list of freedom fighters to prepare for our History assessments and mains examinations. But let us just remind ourselves that the struggle has been built with overwhelming set of efforts to give us the India we live in and know about today. More than just remembering the name, the biggest respect we give our ancestral freedom fighters will be is shaping an India that everyone loves and respects

Only those of us who were born prior to 1947 have grown up in a momentous period of Indian history – a history that has been significant from political, religious and literary angles. Statewise list of freedom fighters are given here

Here we have given a collection of names from the States across the Indian Nation who have been a part and parcel of the Indian Freedom Movement and gifted us the Nation which we all take for granted. The names have been compiled and curated; you are always welcome to add more names in case we missed.The below list gives the names of Freedom fighters from all across Indian States. Let us believe we won’t divide the states any further

Freedom Fighters from Assam

Freedom Fighters from Andhra Pradesh

Freedom Fighters from Bihar

Freedom Fighters from Chattisgargh

Freedom Fighters from Delhi

Freedom Fighters from Kerala

Freedom Fighters from Gujarat

Freedom Fighters from Tamil Nadu

Freedom Fighters from Karnataka

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Assamese Freedom Fighters - Male - Female

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Gopinath Bordoloi	1890 - 1950	Gopinath Bordoloi was the Chief Minister of Assam before independence and later Chief Minister of the Indian state of Assam, and also a leading Indian independence activist.	Non Co-operation Movement, Quit India Movement
2	Jyoti Prasad Agarwala	1903 - 1951	Joined the Non Co-operation movement in 1921. He also made immense contributions in the medium of song-drama-speech during this period.	Non Co-operation Movement
3	Kanaklata Barua	1924 - 1942	Kanaklata Barua was an Indian freedom fighter from Assam who was shot dead while leading a procession bearing the National Flagduring the Quit India Movement of 1942	Quit India Movement
4	Kushal Konwar	1905 - 1943	Kushal Konwar stands out as a bright star of India’s historical freedom struggle for he happened to be the only martyr in the country who was hanged during the Quit India Movement of 1942.	Quit India Movement
5	Bhogeswari Phukanani			Civil Disobedience movement Quit India movement

Freedom Fighters from Andhra Pradesh

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy	1847	Was involved in a rebellion against British authorities in India in 1846
2	Alluri Sitarama Raju	1897 - 1924	Hewas a young revolutionary during the freedom struggle and to this day remains an inspiring role model for those who fight against oppression	Rampa Rebellion of 1922–24 "Manyam Veerudu" ("Hero of the Jungles")
3	Gottipati Brahmaiah	1889 - 1984	Popularly known as Ryotu Pedda (Leader of Farmers). He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1982.	Zamindari Ryot Movement boycott of the Simon Commission civil disobedience movement Quit India movement
4	Kalluri Chandramouli	1898 - 1992	Freedom fighter, philanthropist, scholar educated in Scotland
5	Vavilala Gopalakrishnayya	1906 - 2003	Born in 1908, he started his career as a journalist, but soon got actively involved in the freedom struggle
6	Kaneganti Hanumanthu		Kaneganti Hanumanthu was a freedom fighter who rebelled against British Rule and spearheaded the Palnadu Rebellion against tax(Pullari)
7	Gouthu Latchanna	1909 - 2006	Veteran freedom fighter and champion of backward classes	Quit India Movement Swaraj Movement Civil Disobedience Movement
8	Tanguturi Prakasam	1872 - 1957	Tanguturi Prakasam earned the sobriquet ‘Andhra Kesari’ after he bared his chest and dared the British to open fire upon him during the visit of Simon Commission to Madras	Non Co-Operation Movement Quit India Movement
9	Gogineni Ranga Nayukulu	1900 - 1995	He was an exponent of the peasant philosophy, and considered the father of the Indian Peasant Movement	Indian peasant Movement
10	Pingali Venkayya	1876 - 1953	He was the designer of the flag on which the Indian national flag was based

List of freedom fighters from Bihar

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Anugrah Narayan Sinha	1887 - 1957	One of the leading makers of modern Bihar, and for many years Bihar got his leadership.	Champaran Satyagraha movement Civil Disobedience Movement
2	Jayaprakash Narayan	1902 -1979	Jayaprakash Narayan's concept of Total Revolution' is one of his most important contributions to modem Indian political thought.	Quit India Movement
3	Kunwar Singh	1877 - 1961	The chief organiser of the fight against the British in Bihar. He is popularly known as Veer Kunwar Singh.
4	Rajendra Prasad	1884 - 1963	Because of the enormous public adulation he enjoyed,he was referred to as Desh Ratna or the Jewel of the country.	Salt Satyagraha of 1931 Quit India movement of 1942 Champaran Movement Non-cooperation Movement.
5	Rambriksh Benipuri	1899 - 1968	Benipuri was a close associate of Jayaprakash Narayan and a leading light of the Congress Socialist Party.	Non Co-operation Movement
6	Yamuna Karjee	1898 - 1953	Pandit Yamuna Karjee, a peasant leader, then took the initiative to organize a provincial Kisan Sabha	Kisan Movement and Peasant movement Non - Co operation Movement

List of male and female freedom fighters from Delhi

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Aruna Asaf Ali	1909 - 1996	She was elected the first Mayor of Delhi. She was posthumously given the Bharata Ratna Award in 1997.	Quit India Movement 1942
2	Abul Kalam Azad	1888 - 1958	National Education Day (India) an annual observance in India to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the first education minister of independent India, who served from 15 August 1947 until 2 February 1958.	Non-Cooperation Movement Quit India Movement
3	Brahm Prakash	1918 -1993	Ch. Brahm Prakash Yadav was the first chief minister of Delhi	Satyagraha Movement Quit India Movement
4	Brij Krishna Chandiwala		A political associate of Mahatma Gandhi and was awarded the Padma Shri in 1963 for his contributions to the field of social work.
5	Satyavati Devi	1904 - 1945	A fiery freedom fighter, Mahatma Gandhi affectionately labeled her Toofani (like a whirlwhind/ tempestuous)Behan(sister). And was acclaimed as the Joan of Arc of India	Civil disobedience movement

Freedom fighters from chattisgargh

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
	Dada Dharmadhikari	1899 - 1985	A true Gandhian, dedicated to the cause of humanity and nationalism and had engaged himself in studying, thinking and propagating the Gandhian thoughts with the relevance to the existing universal problems.
	Thakur Pyarelal Singh	1891	He was also conferred with the honorary title of "Tyagmurti", which literally means "epitome of sacrifice".	Non Co-operation Movement Flag Satyagrah Movement Boycott Movement Quit India Movement

Women freedom fighters of Kerala

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Accamma Cherian	1909 - 1982	Travancore State Congress was formed and Accamma gave up her teaching career to join the struggle for liberty	Civil disobedience movement Quit India Movement
2	A.V. Kuttimalu Amma	1905 - 1985	She led groups of women in the picketing of foreign cloth-shops in Kozhikode in the year 1931.	Civil disobedience movement Quit India Movement

Freedom fighters of Kerala - Men

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	K. Kumar	1894 - 1973	Kumarji was the President of the Travancore Congress Committee and was also in charge of Gandhiji's Travancore tour more than once.	Salt Satyagraha Temple Entry movement
2	K. Kelappan	1889 - 1971	Kelappan was an energetic revolutionary, social reformer and crusader for justice to the downtrodden.	Bhoodan movement
3	Mohammed Abdur Rahiman	1898 - 1945	He attended college at Madras and Aligarh but discontinued his studies at Aligarh University to participate in Non-co-operation movement and Khilafat movement in Malaba	Non Co-operation movement Khilafat Movement
4	Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai	1878 - 1916	K. Ramakrishna Pillai (1878–1916) was a nationalist writer, journalist, editor, and political activist.
5	Vaikom Muhammad Basheer	1908 - 1994	Basher was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1982. He bagged the Sahitya Akademi award in 1970 and Kendra Sahitya Akademi award in 1982.
6	Vakkom Moulavi	1873 - 1932	Vakkom Abdul Khadar Maulavi tried to spread modern education and to eliminate evil customs,
7	Veliyankode Umar Khasi	1117 - 1273	Umar Khasi was an early participant in the Civil disobedience movement in Indian peninsula, refusing to pay tax	Civil Dis-Obedience Movement

Women freedom fighters from Gujarat

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Hansa Jivraj Mehta	1887 - 1995	After independence, she was among the 15 women who were part of the constituent assembly that drafted the Indian Constitution
2	Indumati Chamanlal		Founder of the first Khadi store in India and was honoured by the Government of India in 1970 with Padma Shri
3	Kasturba Gandhi	1869 - 1944	She was an Indian political activist and the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
4	Perin Captain	1888 - 1958	She was a granddaughter of Dadabhai Naoroji and was born at Mandvi in Kutch	Swadeshi Movement Civil disobedience movement
5	Poornima Arvind Pakvasa	1913 - 2016	Poornima Arvind Pakvasa, known as the Didi of Dangs, was an Indian independence activist and social worker from Gujarat.
6	Usha Mehta	1920 - 2000	In 1928, eight-year-old Usha participated in a protest march against the Simon Commission and shouted her first words of protest against the British Raj: "Simon Go Back." She	Quit India Movement of 1942

Freedom Fighters of Gujarat List - Men

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Abbas Tyabji	1854 - 1936	He was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and also served as the Chief Justice of Baroda State.
2	Asoka Mehta	1911-1984	He was a founding member of the first Governing Body of National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi	Civil Disobedience Movement Quit India movement
3	Balwantrai Mehta	1900 - 1965	He is considered as the 'Architect of Panchayati Raj ' due to his contributions towards democratic decentralisation.	Civil Disobedience movement Quit India movement
4	Bhulabhai Desai	1887 - 1946	Desai enrolled as an advocate at the Bombay High Court in 1905, and became one of the city's and later the nation's leading lawyers.
5	Gopaldas Ambaidas Desai	1887 - 1951	He is remembered as the first prince in India who gave up his principality to become a freedom fighter against the British Raj.	Civil Disobedience Movement Quit India Movement
6	Jhaverchand Meghani	1896 -1947	Mahatma Gandhi spontaneously gave the title of Raashtreeya Shaayar (National Poet)
7	Mahadev Desai	1892 - 1942	From the year 1917 to 1942, Mahadev lived with Gandhi. And Gandhi had rightly said that Mahadev in his life span of fifty years had done the work of one hundred years.
8	Mohanlal Lallubhai Dantwala	1909 - 1998	He was an Indian agricultural economist, academic and writer, considered by many as the father of Indian Agricultural Economics
9	Mohanlal Pandya		Pandya was a close associate of both Gandhi and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel during the Indian Independence Movement.
10	Jhinabhai Desai	1903 - 1991	Jhinabhai Ratanji Desai, better known by his pen name Snehrashmi, was a Gujarati language author	Non Co-operation Movement
11	Vallabhbhai Patel	1875 - 1950	Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, popularly known as Sardar Patel, was the first Deputy Prime Minister of India; and was popularly regarded as iron man of India	Quit India Movement
12	Vinod Kinariwala	1924 - 1942	He became the first student martyr of India over 'Quit India Movemen	Quit India Movement Non Co-operation Movement

Freedom fighters from Tamil Nadu

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Subramania Bharati	1882-1921	He his one of the well known tamil poet who wrote poem's regarding patriotism, caste and religious view. He fought for caste system in Tamilnadu	Indian independence movement against British
2	Tiruppur Kumaran	February 6, 1900	He started “Desa Bandhu Youth Association” by grouping the youths and young persons from Tamilnadu to struggle against the British government to get freedom	Indian independence movement against British
3	veera mangai velunachiyar	1730-1796		first queen to fight against the British colonial power in India.
4	vanchinathan	1886-1911	On June 17, 1911, Vanchi assassinated Ashe, the district collector of Tirunelveli, who was also known as Collector Dorai	Freedom Fighter who sought arms against British
5	veerapandiya kattabomman	1760-1799		one of the earliest to oppose the British rule
6	vo chidambaram pillai	1872-1936	He was the first man in Tamilnadu who started shipping trade between Tuticorin and Coloumbo	Freedom Fighter
7	Dheeran chinnamalai	1756-1805		Freedom Fighter against British
8	subramaniya siva	1884-1925		Freedom Fighter
9	maruthu pandiyar	1748-1801		They are the first to Proclamation of Independence
10	K. Kamaraj	1903-1975	He is simple man fought for our freedom so he was well known as "Gandhi of Tamilnadu"	He established many plans for education such as "Sathunavu thittam" which influenced many poor students to gain education
11	Rettamalai Srinivasan	1860-1945	He founded a Tamil newspaper called Paraiyan in October 1893
12	E.V.Ramasamy	1870-1973	He was the first person in Tamilnadu who speak about Women rights	He was the person who started Self-Respect Movement or the Dravidian Movement
13	Lakshmi Sehgal	1914-2012	Sahgal is commonly referred to in India as "Captain Lakshmi", a reference to her rank when taken prisoner in Burma during the Second World War.	she organised relief camps and medical aid in Calcutta for refugees who streamed into India from Bangladesh
14	Janaky Athi Nahappan	1925-2014	She was determined to join the women's wing, the  Rani of Jhansi Regiment  of the  Indian National Army	She was among the first women to join the Indian National Army organised during the  Japanese occupation of Malaya  to fight for Indian independence with the Japanese
15	Sir S. Subramania Iyer	1842-1924
16	G. Subramania Iyer	1855-1916	In 1898, Subramania Iyer relinquished his claims over 'The Hindu' and concentrated his energies on Swadesamitran, the Tamil language newspaper which he had started in 1882
17	Sir P. S. Sivaswami Iyer	1864-1946	P. S. Sivaswami Iyer (1919). Martial law administration in the Panjab. As described by the official witnesses.
10	Champakaraman Pillai	1891-1934	Pillai was the foreign minister of the Provisional Government of India set up in Kabul, Afghanistan on 1 December 1915, with Raja Mahendra Pratapas President and Maulana Barkatullah as Prime Minister. However, the defeat of the Germans in the war shattered the hopes of the revolutionaries, and the British forced them out of Afghanistan in 1919.	Indian Independence movement, Indo-German Conspiracy
19	Sathyamurthy	1887-1943	Satyamurti was the President of the provincial wing of the Swaraj Party from 1930 to 1934 and the Tamil Nadu Congress Committee from 1936 to 1939. He was a member of the Imperial Legislative Council from 1934 to 1940 and Mayor of Madras from 1939 to 1943.

Freedom fighters from Karnataka

S.No	Names	Periods	Details	Movement
1	Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay	1903 -1988	Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay was a freedom fighter, art enthusiast, social activist, actor, youth leader, and forward-thinking women’s movement organizer	Swadeshi nationalist movement, Non-cooperation Movement
2	Karnad Sadashiva Rao	1881 - 1937		Satyagraha Movement
3	Kittur Chennamma	1778 - 1829	Chennamma led an armed rebellion against the British East India Company in 1824 in defiance of the doctrine of lapse
4	N. S. Hardikar	1889 - 1975	During the Kakinada Congress session of 1923 a 13-member committee under Hardikar was formed to look at the establishment of Hindustani Seva Mandal.	Flag sathyagraha, Civil Disobedience Movement
5	Nittoor Srinivasa Rau	1903 - 2004	Nittoor was the Chief Justice of the High Court of Mysore State and also the first chief of the Central Vigilance Commission of India	Civil Disobedience Movement, Quit India Movement