Shyamji Krishna Varma biography: born 4 October 1857 in Mandvi, Kutch, the Sanskrit scholar founded India House in London, the nursery of…
Batukeshwar Dutt biography: born 18 November 1910, he threw bombs in the Central Legislative Assembly with Bhagat Singh in 1929, survived the…
In June 1984 the Indian Army entered the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar to remove armed militants. The operation and its aftermath…
Kalpana Datta biography: born 27 July 1913 in Chittagong, she joined Surya Sen's revolutionaries as a teenager, was sentenced to transportation for…
Ram Prasad Bismil biography: born 11 June 1897 in Shahjahanpur, the poet founded the Hindustan Republican Association, led the Kakori train action…
Udham Singh biography: born 26 December 1899 in Sunam, Punjab, he shot Michael O'Dwyer in London in 1940 to avenge the Jallianwala…
Ashfaqulla Khan biography: born 22 October 1900 in Shahjahanpur, the poet and revolutionary took part in the Kakori train action and was…
Rash Behari Bose biography: born 25 May 1886 in Bengal, the revolutionary fled to Japan in 1915, founded the Indian Independence League…
Bagha Jatin biography: born 7 December 1879 in Bengal, Jatindranath Mukherjee led the Jugantar revolutionaries and died after a gun battle with…
Ela Bhatt biography: born 7 September 1933 in Ahmedabad, the Gandhian lawyer founded SEWA, a union of more than two million self-employed…
From 25 June 1975 to 21 March 1977 India was under a state of Emergency, with civil liberties suspended, the press censored…
Licypriya Kangujam biography: born 2 October 2011 in Manipur, she began campaigning on climate change at seven and is one of the…
