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Freedom Fighters FREEDOM FIGHTERS
AROUND 75 YEARS AGO, ON THE HISTORIC DATE OF 15TH AUGUST 1947, INDIA BECAME FREE FROM BRITISH DOMINATION. IT WAS THE CULMINATION OF NUMEROUS MOVEMENTS AND STRUGGLES THAT WERE RIFE THROUGHOUT THE TIME OF BRITISH RULE INCLUDING THE HISTORIC REVOLT OF 1857. THIS INDEPENDENCE WAS ACHIEVED THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF MANY REVOLUTIONARY INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS, SUCH AS MAHATMA GANDHI, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, CHANDRA SHEKHAR AZAD, RANI LAKSHMI BAI OF JHANSI, AND MORE, WHO TOOK THE LEAD IN ORGANIZING THE STRUGGLE WHICH LED TO INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE. THIS BLOG BRINGS YOU THE INDIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES TO ENSURE INDIA’S INDEPENDENCE.
BORN ON 2ND OCTOBER 1869, MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI IS REVERED AS FATHER OF THE NATION FOR HIS IMMENSE SACRIFICES FOR INDIA. HE NOT ONLY USHERED INDIA TOWARDS FREEDOM, BUT HE ALSO BECAME THE INSPIRING FIGURE FOR MANY INDEPENDENCE STRUGGLES AND RIGHTS MOVEMENTS ACROSS THE WORLD. POPULARLY CALLED BAPU, GANDHI INTRODUCED THE DOCTRINE OF NON-VIOLENCE IN INDIA. ACCORDING TO HIM, INDEPENDENCE WAS TO BE ACHIEVED THROUGH A COMBINATION OF NON-VIOLENT MOVEMENT AND NON-CO-OPERATION WITH THE BRITISH. THE HISTORIC NON-COOPERATION MOVEMENT, DANDI MARCH AND THE QUIT INDIA MOVEMENT WERE ALL STARTED UNDER HIS LEADERSHIP.
PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU WAS BORN ON 14TH NOVEMBER 1889. HE WAS THE SINGLE CHILD OF MOTILAL NEHRU AND SWARUP RANI NEHRU. NEHRU WAS ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED BARRISTERS AND WAS KNOWN FOR HIS INTELLECTUAL CAPABILITIES WHICH SOON MADE HIM ONE OF THE GREATEST POLITICIANS INDIA HAD EVER SEEN. NEHRU, UNDER THE APPROVAL OF GANDHI, HIS MENTOR, ROSE TO BECOME ONE OF THE MOST DOMINANT FIGURES IN INDIAN POLITICS FROM THE 1930S ONWARDS. NEHRU, AFTER MUCH DELIBERATIONS, ACCEPTED THE PARTITION PROPOSAL FOR INDIA IN 1947 AND TOOK OATH AS THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA AFTER ATTAINING INDEPENDENCE. HIS BIRTHDAY ON 14 NOVEMBER IS WIDELY CELEBRATED IN INDIA AS CHILDREN’S DAY.
LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI Lal Bahadur Shastri was born on 2nd October 1904 in the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was conferred with the title of Shastri which in English is termed as Scholar. At the age of only sixteen, he left his studies to join the non-cooperation movement at the call of Gandhi. Later, he graduated with a first-class degree from Kashi Vidyapeeth, a national institution of higher education inaugurated by Gandhi. He was one of the most proactive Indian freedom fighters who participated in various movements such as the Quit India movement, Civil Disobedience movement and other satyagrahas led by Mahatma Gandhi. Lal Bahadur Shastri was incarcerated by the British for considerable periods during his lifetime. Post attaining independence, he first became the Home Minister and later was made the Prime Minister of India in the year 1964.
Born in 1907, Bhagat Singh was among the extreme revolutionary Indian freedom fighters. He was a largely controversial, though respected figure in the freedom struggle of India. This revolutionary hero was born in a Sikh family in the undivided state of Punjab and carried the legacy of his family and clinched to his patriotism till his death. He was involved in a plot in 1928 to assassinate James Scott, a British police superintendent to exact revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. The plot failed when they mistakenly killed another young police officer and Singh fled to Lahore to escape from punishment. The following year, he, along with his associates hurled a bomb at the Central Legislative Assembly in Delhi in protest against the implementation of the Defence of India Act and surrendered to the police. This great Indian freedom fighter was sentenced to death by hanging by the British, and executed at the age of only 23.
SUBHASH CHANDRA BOSE One of the greatest Indian freedom fighters that history witnessed was none other than Subhas Chandra Bose. He was born on 23rd January 1897. He was a radical nationalist and his ultimate patriotism carved a hero out of him. Bose disagreed with the ideals of non-violence promoted by Gandhi, instead of believing that only armed revolt could oust the British from India. The founder of the Forward Bloc, he escaped the eyes of the British to ultimately reach Germany during the second world war. He raised the Indian National Army (INA) and with Japanese help, was able to free a portion of Indian territory from the British in Manipur, but was ultimately defeated due to Japanese surrender to the British. Although he is believed to have died in a plane crash in 1945, his death remains shrouded in mystery to date.
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