Leaders vis-a-vis Groups

Moderates	Extremists	Swarajists	No changers	Revolutionary/Militancy
Liberal and moderates
Early nationalists 1885-1905	Since 1905	1922	1922
Prayer, Petition, Protest, constitutional agitation	Passive resistance	Enter council and use it as political arena for struggle. Obstruct council if demands not met	Do constructive work and continue boycott	Personal sacrifices, direct political action, hatred for foreign rule
Dadabhai Naoroji- Bombay Surendranath Benerjea - Bengal Womesh Chandra Benerjea Pherozshah Mehta - Bombay Dinshaw E. Wacha Gopala Krishna Gokhale A.O. Hume, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Badruddin Tyabji, Justice Ranade, G. Subramanya Aiyar KK Mitra	Lal Bal Pal Aurobindo Ghosh	CR Das Motilal Nehru Ajmal Khan Lala Lajapati Rai M M Malaviya N C Kelkar	Vallabhai Patel Rajendra Prasad C Rajagopalachari M A Ansari	Lal Bal Pal Aurobindo Ghosh Raj Narain Bose Ashwini Kumar Datta Vishnu Shastri Chiplunkar

Responsivist and Non-responsivist groups.

In 1924, there were communal rights which made Swarajists to split into Responsivist and Non-responsivist groups. Responsivists such as Lala Lajapati Rai, MM Malaviya, NC Kelkar advocated for so-called Hindu interests and accused non-responsivists like Motilal Nehru for being anti-Hindu
Responsivits went for elections while non-responsivists withdrawn from councils

1857 revolt leaders

Emperor - Bahadur Shah Zafar II

Delhi - General Bhakt khan -Led Bareily troops and brought them to Delhi

Kanpur - Nana Saheb

Lucknow - Begum Hazrat Mahal

Bareilly - Khan Bahadur

Bihar - Kunwar Singh

Faizabad - Maulvi Ahmadullah -Native of Madras

Jhansi - Rani Laxmibai, Tantia Tope

Early Nationalist Leaders

Dadabhai Naoroji - Gujarati

Surendranath Benerjea - Bengal

Womesh Chandra Benerjea

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Ananda Mohan Bose - Bengal

Sisir Kumar Ghosh

MG Ranade - Poona

Badruddin Tyabji - Bombay

Pherozshah Mehta - Bombay

Bala Gangadhar Tilak - Bombay

KT Telang - Bombay

M Viraraghavachari - Madras

B Subramaniya Ayer - Madras

P Ananda Charlu - Madras

Motilal Ghosh

Madan Mohan Malaviya

Dinshaw E. Wacha

RC Dutt

Kadambini Ganguly (first woman addressed INC)

Swadeshi Movement leaders

Lal Lajpat Rai
Balagangadar Tilak(Lokmanya Tilak)
Bipin Chandra Pal
Aurobindo Ghosh
Ajit Singh
Syed Haider Raza (Delhi)
Chidambaram Pillai (Madras)
Liaqat Hossain

Barrister Abdul Rasul
Guznavi

Maulana Azad

Shyamsunder Chakrabarti

Rabindranath Tagore
Surendranath Benerjea
K K Mitra
Prithwishchandra Ray

Ashwini Kumar Dutt

Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Dadabhai Naoroji

Acharya PC Roy
V Krishna Swamy Ayer
Subramaniya Bharati

Etc.

Women: Sister Nivedita

Home Rule league Movement leaders

Bala Gangadhar Tilak [India Home Rule League at Belgaum]
Anni Besant [George Arundale-Secretary, BW Wadia and CP Ramaswamy Aiyar][Home Rule League at Madras]
Motilal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
CR Das
Bhulabhai Desai
Madan Mohan Malaviya
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Tej Bahadur Sapru
Lala Lajapati Rai
B Chakravarti
J Benerjea
Note: Muslims, Anglo Indians, and Non brahmins(Justice Party) from South Not joined fearing home rule is rule by upper caste hindu majority

Non-Cooperation movement leaders

Gandhi
CR Das

Jawaharlal Nehru
Motilal Nehru

Sardar Vallabhai Patel
Lal Bahadur Sastri

Lala Lajapat Rai
Rajendra Prasad
C Rajagopala Chari
T Prakasam
Ali brothers - Shaukat Ali and Muhammad Ali
Maulana Azad
Ajmal Khan
Hasrat Mohani

Subhash Chandra Bose

Basanti Debi - Wife of CR Das

JM Senugupta

Jitendralal Benerjea
Alluri Sitaram Raju
MN Roy
Bhagwan Ahir (who was beaten that led to Chauri-Chaura incident)
Kishan Singh and Mota Singh (Babbar Akali group)
Singaravelu Chettiar
Konda Venkatappaya
A Kaleswara Rao
Pattabhi Sitaramayya
Duggirala Gopalakrishnayya
NC Bardaloi
Prem Chand
Purushottam Das Tandon
MM Malaviya

Women: Kasturba Gandhi, Basanti, Urmil, Sunit devi, Hemparabha Mazumdar, Sarla Devi Chudurani, Kamala Nehru, Swarup Rani, Sarojini Naidu, Sucheta Kripalani, Kamaladevi Chattopadhya

Note:

Initially, Tilak opposed to having alliance with Muslim league on the religious cause and skeptical about satyagrahi technique
Since extra constitutional struggle, leaders like Jinnah, Anni Besant, GS Kharpade, Bipin Chandra Pal left congress and Surendranath Benerjea founded Indian National Liberal Foundation
Madan Mohan Malaviya participated in Non-cooperation movement but opposed to congress participation in Khilafat movement
Justice Party/South Indian Liberal Association opposed non-cooperation as it lead to anarchy

Motilal Nehru Committee 1928

Motilal Nehru

Tej Bahadur Sapru

Subhash Bose

M S Aney

Mangal Singh

Ali Imam

Shuab Qureshi

G R Pradhan

Dandi march leaders

Gandhi- Ahmedabad to Dandi
C Rajagopalachari - Tiruchirappalli to Vedaranniyam [TN]
K Kelappan- Calicut to Poyannur [Malabar]
Assam - Sylhet to Noakhali(Bengal)

Civil Disobedience movement leaders

Gandhi
C Rajagopalachari - March from Tiruchirapally to Vedaranniyam

Jawaharlal Nehru

K Kelappan - March from Calicut to Poyannur

P Krishna Pillai
Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan/Frontier Gandhi/Badshah Khan- Red shirts [Khudai Khidmatagars]
Sarojini Naidu
Surya Sen
Abbas Tayabji
GD Birla
Jamnalal Bajaj
Subhash Bose
JM Sengupta
Vithalbai Patel
Sheik Abdullah

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya

Jayaprakash Narayan

BR Ambedkar

Duggirala Balaramakrishnayya
NV Gadgil
NV Rama Naidu
NC Ranga
MN Roy

Women: Kamaladevi Chattopadhya, Sarojini Naidu, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

NOTE: Hindu Mahasabha not participated Civil Disobedience movement

Quit India Movement leaders

Gandhi

Jaya Prakash Narayan
Ram Manohar Lohia
Sucheta Kripalani
Biju Patnaik
Chittu Pande
Usha Mehta

Rashbehari Bose
Captain Mohan Singh

Subhash Chandra Bose
C Rajagopalachari
Bhulabhai Desai

Lakshman Naik
Nana Patil

Women: Aruna Asaf Ali, Sucheta Kripalani, Usha Mehta, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

NOTE: Hindu Mahasabha (incl VR Savarkar) against Quit India movement

Underground activity during Quit India movement

Subhash Chandra Bose
Jaya Prakash Narayan
Ram Manohar Lohia

Aruna Asaf Ali
Usha Mehta
Usha Sharma
Sucheta Kripalani
Biju Patnaik
Chhotubai Goenka
Achyut Patwardhan
R P Goenka

Leaders and their imp activities

Names of Freedom Fighter	Important Activities
Ajit Singh	Active member of Ghadr party Founded Bharat Mata Society and Journal Peshwa Revolutionary nationalist arrested in 1907 and sent to Mandalay
Alluri Sitarama Raju	Rampa Rebellion of 1922
Ambedkar	All India Depressed Classes organization, Poona Pact, attended all RTC, Indian Labour Party and Schedu led Castes Federation, Republican Party
Amarendranath Chatterjee	Indo-German Conspiracy
Ambika Chakrabarty	Chittagong armoury raid
Anant Laxman Kanhere	Shooting of British officer Jackson
Ananta Singh	Chittagong armoury raid
Aruna Asaf Ali	Indian national movement. Grand Old Lady of Independence movement. Heroine of 1942 movement
Ashfaqulla Khan	Kakori conspiracy
Aurobindo Ghosh	Extremist/Militant. Political Freedom is the life breath of a nation. Swadeshi movement
Bakht Khan	Indian Rebellion of 1857
Barindra Kumar Ghosh	Alipore bomb case. Brother of Aurobindo Ghosh
Batukeshwar Dutt	Central Assembly Bomb Case 1929
Begum Hazrat Mahal	Indian Rebellion of 1857
Bhagat Singh	prominent in the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) Killed British Official Saunders in 1928, involved in Lahore Conspiracy Case, bombed Central Assembly
Bhagwati Charan Vohra	Philosophy of the Bomb
Bhavabhushan Mitra	Ghadar Mutiny
Bhupendra Kumar Datta	Member of Anushilan Samiti
Bhupendranath Datta	Indo-German Conspiracy, member of Anushilan Samiti
Bina Das	Attempted to assassinate the Bengal Governor Stanley Jackson. Part of Chittagong group
Binod Bihari Chowdhury	Chittagong armoury raid
Chandra Shekhar Azad	Indian revolutionary who reorganised the Hindustan Republican Association under its new name of Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) after the death of its founder, Ram Prasad Bismil Gained his title Azad during Noncooperati on movement when the court asked his name, he told Azad
Chittaranjan Das/ CR Das	founder of Swaraj party in Bengal, leader in Non-cooperation Movement from Bengal. INC president of Gaya session where Swarajists vs no-changers
CR Rajagopalachary	Tamilnadu, CR formula for Congress-League cooperation, First and Last Indian Gov General of India, Satyameva Jayate , Bharata Ratna , Liberal
Dadabhai Naoroji	Early nationalist . East India Association in London. Economic Drain. Early INC active role. Moderate Titles - Indian Gladstone, Grand Old Man of India; First to demand swaraj in 1906 INC session
Dayanand Saraswati	India for Indians, Back to Vedas, Arya Samaj, Revivalist
Frontier Gandhi/Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan	Khudai Khidmatagars [Red-shirts] , Pukhtoon
Ganesh Damodar Savarkar	Armed movement against the British
Ganesh Ghosh	Chittagong armoury raid
Jawahar Lal Nehru	first prime minister of India, a paramount leader of Indian independence under the tuteage of M.K.Gandhi
Jogesh Chandra Chatterjee	Kakori conspiracy
Kalpana Datta	Indian Independence Movement, also part of the Chittagong armoury raid planning
Khudiram Bose	The Muzaffarpur killing One of the youngest revolutionaries in the India. At the time of his hanging, he was 18 years, 8 months 8 days old
Mangal Pandey	Indian Rebellion of 1857
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi	He was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is also known The Father of The Nation
Prafulla Chaki	The Muzaffarpur killing
Pritilata Waddedar	Pahartali European Club attack
Rash Behari Bose	Indian National Army
Shivaram Rajguru	Murder of a British police officer J. P. Saunders
Shyamji Krishna Varma	Founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.
Sri Aurobindo	Alipore bomb case
Subhas Chandra Bose	Founder of the Indian National Army. One of member of Motilal Nehru Report. Forward Bloc. Indian Independence League
Sukhdev Thapar	Central Assembly Bomb Case 1929
Surya Sen	President of Indian National Congress Chittagong Branch, mastermind of Chittagong armoury raid
Tanguturi Prakasam	Tanguturi Prakasam Pantulu (23 August 1872 – 20 May 1957) was an Indian politic an and freedom fighter He was the chief minister of the Madras Presidency, and subsequently became the first chief minister of the new Andhra state, created by the partition of Madras State along linguistic lines. He was also known as Andhra Kesari (Lion of Andhra).
Tej Bahadur Sapru	One of the member in Motilal Nehru Report, Mediator b/w Govt and Congress during RTC time, Home Rule league movement, 1921 Press Committee Chairman Defended INA in INA Trails
Vasudev Balwant Phadke	Deccan Rebellion
Vinayak Damodar Savarkar	Father of Hindu Nationalism. India House - revolutionary group Was jailed at Cellular Jail in 1911

*16 May 2021

Leaders and Movements