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Spectrum Chart - 682 : Patriots of India
1. Mangal Pandey - Mangal Pandey was an
Indian soldier who played a key part in events immediately preceding
the outbreak of the Indian rebellion of 1857. Pandey is widely
regarded as a hero in modern India. Pandey was a soldier in the 6th
Company of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry and is primarily known for
his involvement in an attack on several of the regiment's officers.
This incident marked an opening stage in the Indian rebellion of 1857
and paved the way for his death.
2. Shivaram Rajguru - Shivaram Hari
Rajguru was an Indian revolutionary from Maharashtra, known mainly
for his involvement in the assassination of a British Raj police
officer. Rajguru became a colleague of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev and
took part in the assassination of a British police officer, J. P.
Saunders, at Lahore in 1928. All three were convicted of the charges
and hanged on 23 March 1931.
3. Sukhdev Thapar - Sukhdev Thapar was a
member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) and
organised revolutionary cells in Punjab and other areas of North
India. Sukhdev is best remembered for his involvement in the Lahore
Conspiracy Case. He was an accomplice of Bhagat Singh and Shivaram
Rajguru. On 23 March 1931, all three men were hanged.
4. Bhagat Singh - Bhagat
Singh was an Indian socialist and a revolutionary. He is
considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the
Indian Independence Movement.
Bhagat Singh assassinated John Saunders, a British police
officer seeking revenge for the death of Lala Lajpat Rai. He threw
two bombs inside the Central Legislative Assembly. He was convicted
and hanged for his participation in the assassination, at the age of
23 in 1931.
5. Rani Laxmi Bai of Jhansi - Laxmibai,
the Rani of Jhansi, born as Manikarnika, was the queen & warrior
of the Maratha-ruled Jhansi State, situated in the north-central part
of India. She was one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion
of 1857 and became for Indian nationalists a symbol of resistance to
the British Raj.
6. Tatya Tope - Ramachandra Pandurang
Tope, better known by his nickname Tatya Tope was an Indian leader in
the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and one of its notable generals. He was
defeated by General Napier's British Indian troops at Ranod and after
a further defeat at Sikar, he was captured & executed by the
British Government at Shivpuri on 18 April 1859.
7. Surya Sen - Surya Sen was a Bengali
Indian independence activist who was influential in the Indian
independence movement who is noted for leading the 1930 Chittagong
armoury raid, in Chittagong of Bengal in British India. He was
attracted towards revolutionary ideals and joined a revolutionary
organization Anushilan Samity.
8. Khudiram Bose - Khudiram Bose was a
Bengali revolutionary, one of the youngest revolutionaries early in
the Indian independence movement. At the young age of sixteen, Bose
planted bombs near police stations and targeted government officials.
He was arrested three years later on charges of conducting a series
of bomb attacks. At the time of his hanging, he was 18 years, 8
months 8 days old.
9. Sardar Udham Singh - Udham Singh was an
Indian revolutionary best known for assassinating Sir Michael
O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in British
India, on 13 March 1940. The assassination has been described as an
avenging of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar in 1919. In
1924, Singh became involved with the Ghadar Party, organizing Indians
overseas towards overthrowing colonial rule.
10. Veer Kunwar Singh - Kunwar Singh
belonged to a royal Ujjaini house of Jagdispur in Bihar. Kunwar Singh
led the Indian Rebellion of 1857 in Bihar. He was nearly eighty and
in failing health when he was called upon to take up arms. He gave a
good fight and harried British forces for nearly a year and remained
invincible until the end. He was the chief organizer of the fight
against the British in Bihar.
11. Vasudev Balwant Fadke - Vasudev Balwant
Fadke was an IndianFreedom Fighter who sought India's independence
from British. Fadke believed that Swaraj was the only remedy for
their ills. With the help of Kolis, Bhils and Dhangars communities in
Maharashtra, Vasudev formed a revolutionary group of Ramoshi. The
group started an armed struggle to overthrow the British Raj.
12. Nana Sahib - Nana Sahib, born as Dhondu
Pant, was an Indian Maratha aristocrat, who led the rebellion in
Cawnpore (Kanpur) during the 1857 uprising. Nana Sahib disappeared
after the Company's recapture of Cawnpore.
13. Ram Prasad Bismil - Ram Prasad Bismil
was an Indian revolutionary who participated in Mainpuri conspiracy
of 1918 and the Kakori conspiracy of 1925 and struggled against
British imperialism. Apart from being a freedom fighter, he was a
patriotic poet and wrote in Hindi and Urdu. Bismil was one of the
founding members of the revolutionary organisation Hindustan
Republican Association.
14. Kanailal Dutta - Kanailal Dutta was a
revolutionary in the India's freedom struggle belonging to the
Jugantar group. During 1905 movement against partition of Bengal,
Kanailal Dutta was in the forefront. In connection with the Kingsford
assassination attempt, Kanailal was arrested and detained in Alipore
Jail. Where he was ordered to kill Naren Goswami for which he was
sentenced to death. He was aged 20, when he was hanged.
15. Hemu Kalani - Hemu Kalani was a Sindhi
revolutionary and freedom fighter during the Indian Independence
Movement. He was a leader of Swaraaj Sena. Hemu Kalani joined Mahatma
Gandhi's Quit India movement when it was started in 1942.
16. Badal Gupta - Badal Gupta was a Bengali
revolutionary nationalist who fought against British rule over India.
On 8 December 1930, Badal along with Dinesh Gupta and Benoy, dressed
in European costume, entered the Writers' Building and shot dead Col
N.S. Simpson, the Inspector General of Prisons, who was infamous for
the oppression on the prisoners in the jails. Badal took Potassium
cyanide and died on the spot, in order to avoid being caught.
17. Ashfaqulla Khan - Ashfaqulla Khan was a
freedom fighter in theIndian independence movement who had sacrificed
his life along with Ram Prasad Bismil. Ashfaqulla Khan was hanged for
his involvement in Kakori train conspiracy against the British Raj.
He was a prominent figure of the Hindustan Republican Association.
18. Bahadur Shah II - Bahadur Shah II or
Bahadur Shah Zafar was the last Mughal emperor in India. Bahadur Shah
Zafar presided over a Mughal Empire that barely extended beyond
Delhi's Red Fort. The East India company allowed him a pension. He
had no real power in India. After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the
British Administration exiled him from Delhi. He was sent to a prison
in Rangoon, Burma.
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