Feroze Gandhi

Feroze Gandhi

Freedom Fighters of India

Name : Feroze Gandhi
Date of birth : 12 August 1912
Date of Death : 8 September 1960
Place of birth : India
Place of death :

Feroze Gandhi (12 August 1912 - 8 September 1960) was an Indian politician and journalist. He was the husband of Indira Gandhi the former Prime Minister of India, and father of the former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.Feroze Gandhi was educated at the City Anglo-Vernacular High School and Ewing Christian College, followed by the London School of Economics. He abandoned his studies in 1930 to join the struggle for Indian independence. He married Indira Gandhi in 1942.Feroze Gandhi arrested and jailed during the Quit India Movement less than six months after their marriage, he was imprisoned for a year in Allahabad's Naini Central Prison. He died in 1960 of a second heart attack.


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Dinesh Gupta

Dinesh Gupta

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Name : Dinesh Chandra Gupta or Dinesh Gupta
Date of birth : 6 December 1911
Date of Death : 7 July 1931
Place of birth : Josholong, Munshiganj District
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Dinesh Chandra Gupta or Dinesh Gupta (1911-1931) was a Bengali Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary Dinesh Gupta was born on 6 December 1911 in the village of Josholong in Munshiganj District, now in Bangladesh.


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Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji

Freedom Fighters of India

Name : Dadabhai Naoroji
Date of birth : September 4, 1825
Date of Death : June 30, 1917
Place of birth : Bombay, India.
Place of death : Bombay, India.

The 'Grand Old Man of India', was born to a Parsi priest's family in Bombay on September 4, 1825. He studied in Elphinstone College and became a professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy there at the age of 27. He was the first Indian to become a professor of the college. At age thirty, he left for England, where he was to spend most of his life writing about the condition of people in India and trying to influence public opinion for Indian self-rule.

He was elected to the post of the president of Indian National Congress, in 1886, 1893 and again in 1906. During his third term, he prevented a split between moderates and extremists in the party. The Congress' demand for swaraj(independence) was first expressed publicly by him in his presidential address in 1906. He died in Bombay on June 30, 1917.


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Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari or Rajaji

Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari

Freedom Fighters of India

Name : C.Rajagopalachari or Rajaji
Full Name : Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari
Date of birth : December 10, 1878
Date of Death : December 25, 1972
Place of birth : India
Place of death :
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Lawyer, Writer, Statesman

Chakravarthi Rajagopalachari or Rajaji (1878 -1972), was an Indian lawyer, writer, statesman and a devout Hindu . He was the second Governor-General of independent India. Later he became the Chief Minister of Madras State, and was one of the first recipients of India's highest civilian award Bharat Ratna in 1954.Chakravarti Rajagopalachari was born in a village in Madras.He had his school education at Hosur and college education from the Central Hindu College of Bangalore. He then took a law degree from the Madras Law College.


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Chittaranjan Das

Chittaranjan Das

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Name : Chittaranjan Das
Date of birth : November 5, 1870
Date of Death : June 16, 1925
Place of birth : Calcutta, India
Place of death : Darjeeling, India
Nationality : Indian
Gender : Male
Movement : Indian Independence movement

Chittaranjan Das (November 5, 1870 - June 16, 1925) was a Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement.His main aim was swaraj, or self-rule, for India.


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Chandrasekhar Azad

Chandrasekhar Azad

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Name : Chandrasekhar Azad
Earlier Name : Chandrasekhar Tiwari
Date of birth : July 23, 1906
Date of Death : February 27, 1931
Place of birth : Bhavra, Jhabua District, Madhya Pradesh
Place of death : Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Movement : Indian Independence movement

Chandra Shekhar Azad was born on July 23,1906 in village Bhavra in Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh. His parents were Pandit Sitaram Tiwari and Jagarani Devi. He received his early schooling in Bhavra. For higher studies he went to the Sanskrit Pathashala at Varanasi.Chandrashekhar Azad was a great Indian freedom fighter. His fierce patriotism and courage inspired others of his generation to enter freedom struggle.


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B. R. Ambedkar

B. R. Ambedkar

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Name : B. R. Ambedkar
Full Name : Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Alternate name : Baba Saheb
Date of birth : April 14, 1891
Date of Death : December 6, 1956
Place of birth : Mhow, Madhya Pradesh, India
Place of death : Delhi, India
Movement : Buddhist movement

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Bhimji Ramji Ambedkar was born on April 14th, 1891, in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. His father was a retired army officer and headmaster in a military school, and his mother an illiterate woman. His parents both were untouchables. Because he was born as a untouchable. Ambedkar spent his life fighting against the system of untouchability and the Indian caste system. He is also credited for having sparked the Dalit Buddhist movement. Ambedkar has been honoured with the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, given for the highest degree of national service.Overcoming numerous social and financial obstacles, Ambedkar became one of the first "untouchables" to obtain a college education in India. He went on to pursue higher studies in Columbia University, New York, United States and England, where he earned law degrees and multiple doctorates for his study and research in law, economics and political science. Returning home a famous scholar, Ambedkar practiced law for a few years before he began publishing journals advocating political rights and social freedom for India's untouchables.


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Bipin Chandra Pal

Issued November 7, 1958 to celebrate the birth centenary.

Bipin Chandra Pal

Freedom Fighters of India

Name : Bipin Chandra Pal
Date of birth : November 7, 1858
Date of Death : May 20, 1932
Place of birth : Sylhet, Bangladesh
Place of death : Sylhet,Bangladesh
Movement : Indian Independence movement
Bipin Chandra Pal was born on November 7, 1858 into a wealthy Hindu Kayastha family in Sylhet. His father was Ramchandra Pal.


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Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya

Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya

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Name : Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Date of birth : Nov 24, 1880
Date of Death :
Place of birth : Gundugolanu, Andhra Pradesh
Place of death :
Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya was an Indian independence activist and political leader in the state of Andhra Pradesh.


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