Freedom Fighters
Learn about the lives and contributions of India’s freedom fighters who played a crucial role in the independence movement. Discover their struggles, ideologies, and lasting legacy.
Surya Sen: Chittagong Armoury Raid That Shook British India
On the night of April 18, 1930, a schoolteacher from Chittagong led sixty-five young men and women in a coordinated...
Bagha Jatin: German Plot That Shook Colonial India 1915
In the summer of 1915, a Bengali revolutionary with a reputation for fighting tigers with his bare hands was waiting...
Begum Hazrat Mahal: How She Held Awadh Together in 1857
Begum Hazrat Mahal was not supposed to lead a revolution. She had been a courtesan, then a royal wife, then...
The Final Letters of Khudiram Bose and Soul of Young Bengal
Khudiram Bose was eighteen years old when he was hanged by the British colonial government in Muzaffarpur on 11 August...
How Madam Bhikaiji Cama Unfurled India’s Flag in Germany
Bhikaiji Cama stood before an international socialist congress in Stuttgart, Germany in August 1907 and unfurled a flag she had...
Matangini Hazra: The Widow Who Walked Into Gunfire
Matangini Hazra was seventy-one years old when she walked to the front of a protest march in Tamluk and refused...
U Tirot Sing: The Khasi Chief Who Fought an Empire for Four Years
The British Empire had roads to build and hills to cross. The Khasi people had a homeland to protect. When...
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