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Freedom Fighters of Gujarat List

Gujarat has also played a vital role in giving our country personalities of importance for their contributioin in the Indian Freedom Struggle. Be it in politics, movies, literature, or business, Gujarati people have proved their potential in each and every field. List of some of the most famous Gujarati people who are known for their valour including the women brave-hearts who served as the building blocks of what emerged as the Indian Freedom Movement. We have listed down some important names for exam preparation purposes.

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