For many decades, many heroic Polygars across the region offered stiff resistance and also even brought the British East India Company to its knees. But the superior might of the Company finally triumphed, and many Polygar heroes ended up martyrs.
Karnataka Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot said: "This Yatra will help youngsters understand more about their country and its achievements. It will inspire them to dedicate themselves to nation-building. This Yatra will instil a sense of pride in the country among the youth. "
Jamnalal Bajaj was the most prominent industrialist who participated in India's freedom struggle. The founder of India's one of the largest business empires, the Bajaj Group. Jamnalal was even described as his fifth son by Mahatma Gandhi.
The man to demolish the myth that such abilities are the white man's preserve was the 28 -year-old Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata or the legendary JRD Tata. The man who led India's biggest business empire, the Tata group, for half a century. The only entrepreneur to win India's highest honor, the Bharat Ratna.
Born in Hoghla, Tamluk in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district to a poor peasant family, Mathangini Hazra was married at 12 and widowed at 18. Heeding Mahatma Gandhi's call, she threw herself headlong into the freedom struggle. Here's her story
The Bengal partition of 1905 had led to an explosion of militant activities by revolutionary nationalists under Anusheelan Samiti and Jugantar. Far away from Bengal, in the deep south, a bunch of Tamil youths were also inspired by the Bengali revolutionaries. One such revolutionary was Vanchinatha Iyer.
The Punnapra Vayalar uprising was an agitation against both the native royal government as well as the foreign colonialists. It was also the first movement by the organised working class against both indigenous and foreign authorities.
There are umpteen tribal groups that fought against the colonial invaders. Yet the most famed among them was the Munda revolt led by Birsa Munda.
The historic peasant struggle that gave a major impetus to the national movement was the Bardoli Satyagraha.
Did you know that a largely-unknown chapter of India's freedom movement took place in the United States? It was the Hindu-German conspiracy case of 1917.
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