• MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI

   

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  FATHER OF OUR NATION

  

• Shaheed Udham Singh

   

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  one of the great patriots of India

  

• Chittaranjan Das

   

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  popularly called as Deshbandhu

  

• JAWAHARLAL NEHRU

   

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  THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA

  

• SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE

   

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  organized Azad Hind Fauj to overthrow British Empire from India.

  

• DR.RAJENDRA PRASAD

   

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  THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF INDIA

  

• SARDAR VALLABHBHAI PATEL

   

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  Vallabhbhai Patel was a major political and social leader of India and its struggle for independence

  

• SORIJINI NAIDU

   

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  The Nightingale of India

  

• GOPALA KRISHNA GOKHALE

   

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  a leader of social and political reformists

  

• Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

   

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  Dr. Ambedkar was the main architect of the Indian Constitution

  

• Lal Bahadur Shastri

   

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  Lal Bahadur Shastri was the second Prime Minister of independent India

  

• Rabindranath Tagore

   

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  He was a scholar, freedom fighter, writer and painter He was called as 'Vishwa Kavi'.

  

• Sukhdev

   

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  He is best known as an accomplice of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev in the killing of a British police officer in 1928 in order to take revenge for the death of veteran leader Lala Lajpat Rai due to excessive police beating

  

• BHAGAT SINGH

   

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  one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle

  

Indian Freedom Fighters with their undaunted courage and true spirit had faced several tortures, hardships and exploitations to earn freedom. `Independent India` was the dream of each and every Indian who lived under the British rule. Each and every entity during the British rule fought in some or other way having a common aim of abolish the British and various other royally powers that be declaration over different parts of India.

A century of whip about, revolt, blood coming loose, sacrifice and battles followed and finally India became independent on the 15th of August, 1947. India secured independence from the British rule but the country lost a large number of men and women who possessed enormous courage and spirit of nationalism. These great people are grateful with the title of freedom fighters those lost their life fighting for the cause of India`s independence. Some of the famous Indian freedom fighters were Mangal Pandey, Rani of Jhansi, Tantia Tope and the famous leader Jawaharlal Nehru Mahatma Gandhi who brought in the mace of peacefulness to fight against the enemy.

Some of the other major freedom fighters of India include Lala Lajpat Rai, Annie Besant, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, Chandrashekhar Azad, Sarojini Naidu, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Dadabhai Naoroji, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, Sucheta Kriplani, etc. There are a large number of women and men who fought daringly for the sovereignty of India.