Today i will tell you about our freedom fighters and their work and sacrifices .

Ambedkar, B. R. (1891 - 1956):

•  A leader of the depressed classes throughout his life, he worked for the moral and material progress of the untouchables. He was jurist by profession and equally a great social worker, politician, writer and educationist. He launched a number of movements for securing equal status for the lower castes

Azad, Chandra Shekhar (1906 - 31): 

• One of the most famous revolutionaries from the present day Uttar Pradesh. He was arrested during Non-Co-operation movement, and was flogged for ridiculing the court during trial by declaring his name as Azad, his father as Swatantra and his home as prison

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1857 - 1920): 

• Remembered as Lokmanya, he played a leading part in popularising the cult of patriotism; first nationalist leader who sought close contact with the masses and he was also a forerunner of Gandhiji.

Vallabhai Patel (1875 - 1950):

• joined the Non-Co-operation Movement; led the famous peasants agitation against in increase in land revenue at Bardoli and won a signal victory; joined the Quit India Movement in 1942; in free India became the Deputy Prime Minister; a man of iron who never allowed personal sentiment to confuse his duties.

Rajendra Prasad (1884 - 1963):

• As a student he took interest in the anti-partition agitation in Bengal and established the Bihari Students ‘Conference’ in the fore-front of the salt Satyagraha and the Civil Disobedience Movement in 1930 and 1932 and suffered imprisonment; on failure of Cripps Mission undertook a tour of his province and prepared the masses for the Quit India Movment; joined Interim Government as Minister for Food and Agriculture in 1946;
• the first President of the Constituent Assembly, became the first President of the Indian Republic.

Bose, Subhash  Chandra  (1897 - 1945):  

• He was  the  supreme commander  of  Azad  Hind  Fauj  (the  Indian  National  Army). In  January  1941,  he  escaped  out  of  India  and  reached  Berlin. He died in a plane crash on August 18, 1945.

Ishwar  Chandra  Vidyasagar  (1820 -  1891 ):  

• He was an upcompromising  social  reformer  and  put  up  a  valiant  fight  for introduction  of  widow  remarriage  and stamping  out polygamy from society

Besant,  Annie  (1847  - 1933)  

• An Irish  English  woman,  who came  to  India  in  1939 to  work for the  Theosophical  society. She  ardently  worked  for  India’s  independence.  In  1915  she founded  the  Home  Rule  League  to launch  the  Home Rule Movement  and was made  President  of  the  Calcutta  session  of the Congress in 1917.