Subhas Chandra Bose

Subhas Chandra Bose [23 January 1897 18 August

1945 (aged 48)] was an Indian nationalist whose defiant
patriotism made him a hero in India, but whose attempt
during World War II to rid India of British rule with the help of Nazi
Germany and Japan left a troubled legacy. The
honorific Netaji (Hindustani language: "Respected Leader"), first
applied to Bose in Germany, by the Indian soldiers of the Indische
Legion and by the German and Indian officials in the Special
Bureau for India in Berlin, in early 1942, is now used widely
throughout India.
Earlier, Bose had been a leader of the younger, radical, wing of
the Indian National Congress in the late 1920s and 1930s, rising
to become Congress President in 1938 and 1939.[8] However, he
was ousted from Congress leadership positions in 1939 following
differences with Mohandas K. Gandhi and the Congress high
command. He was subsequently placed under house arrest by the
British before escaping from India in 1940.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (or Lokmanya Tilak; 23 July 1856 1
August 1920) born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was
an Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer,
lawyer and an independence activist. He was the first
leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British
colonial authorities called him "Father of the Indian

unrest." He was also conferred with the honorary title of

"Lokmanya", which literally means "accepted by the
people (as their leader)".
Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of
"Swaraj" (self-rule) and a strong radical in Indian
consciousness. He is known for his quote, "Swaraj is my
birthright, and I shall have it!" in India. He formed a close
alliance with Muhammad Ali Jinnah, later the founder
of Pakistan, during the Indian Home Rule Movement.

Dadabhai Naoroji

Dadabhai Naoroji (Hindi: ) (4 September

1825 30 June 1917), known as the Grand Old Man
of India, was a Parsi intellectual, educator, cotton
trader, and an early Indian political and social
leader. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) in
the United Kingdom House of Commons between
1892 and 1895, and the first Asian to be a British
MP.
Naoroji is also credited with the founding of
the Indian National Congress, along with A.O.
Hume and Dinshaw Edulji Wacha. His book Poverty
and Un-British Rule in Indiabrought attention to the
draining of India's wealth into Britain. He was also
member of Second International along with Kautsky
and Plekhanov.

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ( 2 October 1869 30 January

1948) was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in Britishruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led
India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and
freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma (Sanskrit: "highsouled", "venerable")applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,
is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapu(Gujarati:
endearment for "father","papa")in India.
Born and raised in a Hindu merchant caste family in
coastal Gujarat, western India, and trained in law at the Inner
Temple, London, Gandhi first employed nonviolent civil
disobedience as an expatriate lawyer in South Africa, in the
resident Indian community's struggle for civil rights. After his
return to India in 1915, he set about organising peasants, farmers,
and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and
discrimination. Assuming leadership of the Indian National
Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing
poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic
amity, ending untouchability, but above all for achieving Swaraj or
self-rule.