Freedom Fighters of India

This is a listing of people who campaigned against foreign domination and cultural imposition on the Indian sub-continent. In India, such individuals are often referred to as freedom fighters.

Soon after the Europeans reached the Indian shores, with the arrival of Vasco da Gama in 1498 at Kappad shore at the port of Kozhikode in Keralam, segments of the indigenous population began intermittent rebellions against foreign powers and their cultural values.

Initially, these revolts were by Arabs, Jews, China|Chinese traders, and local merchants as a rebellion against the monopolistic way of trading by Portugal|Portuguese. Later many of the revolts were over cultural clashes including religious beliefs, taxation, administrative power, etc. These revolts occurred against various European powers, but mainly against Britain, the primary occupier.

16th Century

Murteen Deluu – led a rebellion against British rule. consisted mainly of peasants.

18th Century

• Veeran Azhagu Mutthu Kon – One of the earliest proponents of self-government for India
• Kanhoji Angre
• Abbe Faria
• Tipu Sultan – Mysore
• Pazhassi Raja
• Veerapandiya Kattabomman – Panchalankurichi,Tamil Nadu
• Puli Devar – Nerlkaattum Seval , Tamil Nadu
  

  Pre-1857

• Kitturu Chennamma (the first woman independence activist of India)
• Sangoli Rayanna
  

  Rebellion of 1857

• Bakhat Nasar
• Mangal Pandey
• Tantya Tope
• Rani of Jhansi
• Bahadur Shah Zafar
• Azimullah Khan
• Rae Ahmed Nawaz Khan Kharal
  

  Indian Renaissance

• Arya Samaj
• Brahmo Samaj
• Ramakrishna Mission
• Sri Aurobindo
• Raja Ram Mohan Roy
• Dayananda Saraswati
• Syed Ahmed Khan
• Swami Vivekananda
• Ramakrishna
• Allama Iqbal
  

  Political organizations

• Indian National Congress
• All India Muslim League
• Khudai Khidmatgar
• Khaksar Tehrik
• Gadar Party
• Swaraj Party
• Anushilan Samiti
• Jugantar
• Hindustan Socialist Republican Association
• Bengal Volunteers
• Shiromani Akali Dal
• Unionist Muslim League
• Hindu Mahasabha
• Communist Party of India
• All India Forward Bloc
• Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
• Indian Liberal Party
  

  Leaders from Bengal and Northeastern India

• Subhas Chandra Bose
• Bipin Chandra Pal
• Chittaranjan Das
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Surya Sen
• Pritilata Waddedar
• Gopinath Bardoloi
• Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
• Benoy Basu
• Badal Gupta
• Dinesh Gupta
• Khudiram Bose
• Bagha Jatin
• Barin Ghosh
• Rash Behari Bose
  

  Leaders from Punjab and Northwest India

• Allama Mashriqi
• Allama Iqbal
• Allama Inaitullah Almashriqi
• Lala Lajpat Rai
• Sardul Singh Caveeshar
• Sheikh Abdullah
• Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
• Baba Gurdit Singh
• Baba Gurmukh Singh
• Baba Hari Singh Usman
• Baba Jawala Singh
• Baba Kharak Singh
• Baba Sher Singh
• Bal Raj Bhalla
• Baldev Singh
• Balwant Singh
• Banta Singh
• Bhagat Singh
• Bhagwan Singh Longowalia
• Bhagwati Charan
• Bhai Bal Mukand
• Bhai Parmanand
• Bhai Ram Singh
• Kartar Singh Sarabha
• Kartar Singh Jhabbar
• Kedar Nath Saigal
• Krishna Gopal Dutt
• Kishan Singh Gargaj
• Lala Pindi Das
• Tej Bahadur Sapru
• Sardul Singh Caveeshar
• Seth Sant Ram
• Seth Sudarshan
• Sewa Singh Thikriwala
• Shivaram Rajguru
• Sir Sikander Hyat Khan
• Somprakash Shaida
• Sohan Lal Pathak
• Sohan Singh Bhakna
• Sohan Singh Josh
• Sukhdev
• Pahari Gandhi Baba Kanshi Ram
• Udham Singh
• Sarvothaman
  

  Leaders from Gujarat and Maharashtra

• Dadabhai Naoroji
• Mohandas Gandhi
• Kasturba Gandhi
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak
• Ravi Shankar Vyas
• Narhari Parikh
• Jivatram Kripalani
• Mahadev Desai
• Manilal Pandya
• Mohanlal Pandya
• Abbas Tyabji
• Gopal Krishna Gokhale
• Narahar Vishnu Gadgil
• Vithalbhai Patel
• Vinoba Bhave
• Ganesh Vasudev Mavlankar
• Mridula Sarabhai
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar
• Mohammad Ali Jinnah
• Morarji Desai
• Bhikaiji Cama
• U.N.DHEBAR
• Pujya Mota
• Pandit Shyamji Krishna Varma
  

  Leaders from South India

• Chakravarti Rajgopalachari
• Krishna Menon
• Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi
• Mathai Manjooran
• P.J. Sebastian
• Pattabhi Sitaramayya|Pattabhi Sitarammiaya
• Sarojini Naidu
• Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan
• Srinivasa Iyengar
• V. O. Chidambaram Pillai
  

  Leaders from North and Central India

• Bi Amman
• Maulana Mohammad Ali
• Maulana Shaukat Ali
• Motilal Nehru
• Jawaharlal Nehru
• Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
• Maulana Hasrat Mohani
• Kamla Nehru
• Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
• Rafi Ahmad Kidwai
• Hafiz Mohammed Ibrahim
• Govind Ballabh Pant
• Acharya Narendra Deva
• T A K Sherwani
• Dr Zakir Hussain|Zakir Hussain
• Dr. Shankar Dayal Sharma
• Balkrishan Sharma Navin
• Ganesh Shanker Vidyarthy
• Mahavir Tyagi
• K D Malaviya
• Ajit Prasad Jain
• Ram Manohar Lohia
• Chandrasekhar Azad
• Ashfaqullah
• Mohan Lal Gautam
• Jagan Prasad Rawat
• Vijayalaksmi Pandit
• Purushottam Das Tandon
• Seth Govind Das