People

1857, INM, Gandhian Era, IAI

• Bahadur shah

• Dalhousie - Doctrine of lapse

• Mangal Pandey, Meerut

• Nana saheb - Kanpur

• Kunwar singh - Bihar

• Jhansi - Rani laksmi bai (→ killed by Hugh rose)

• Tantia Tope

• Begum hazrat Mahal - Lucknow

• GG Canning - Suppression

• Khan Bahadur Khan - Bareilly

• AO Hume - INC Founder

• WC Bannerjee - INC President

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak - Founder, Extremists : Maharashtra

• Bipin Chandra Pal - Founder, Exremists : Bengal

• Lala Lajpat Rai - Founder, extremists (died in the simon protest)

• Curzon - Partition of Bengal

• Nawab Salimullah Khan - Founder, All India Muslim League

• Prince Aga Khan - Founder, All India Muslim League

• Ram Prasad Bismil - Leader, Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)

• Jogesh Chatterjee - Leader, Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)

• Sachindranath Sanyal - Leader, Hindustan Republican Association (HRA)

• Chandra Shekhar Azad - Leader, Hindustan Republican Association (HRA);

  Commander-in-chief, Hindustan Socialist Republican association (HSRA)

• Bhagat Singh - Leader (HRA) and Bomber, HSRA (legislative assemly incident)

• Bhatukeshwar Dutt - Bomber, HSRA

• Lala Har Dayal - Founder, Ghadar Party (and the weekly paper), America

• Gandhi - Supreme Leader of the National Indian Independence movement,

  Satyagraha movement, Non-Cooperation movement, Civil-Disobedience

  Movement, Quit-India Movement, and several other minor events.

• Rabindranath Tagore - Surrendered Knight of England, Prominent Figure in the

  Independence of India.

• Maulana Muhammad Ali - Leader, Khlafat Agitation Committee

• Shaukat Ali - Leader, Khlafat Agitation (if position of khalifa was undermined)

• Maulana Azad - Leader, Khilafat Agtation

• Hakim Ajmal Khan - Leader, Khilafat Agitation

• Chittaranjan Das - Congress Khilafat Swaraj Party (end or mend - failed)

• Motilal Nehru - Congress Khilafat Swaraj Party (end or mend - failed), Chairman of Nehru Report, Indian Constitution Committee

• John Simon - Dyarchy reviewr, Simon commision

• Dr Ansari - Leader, Simon Protest

• Jawaharlal Nehru - Prominent figure, Youth wing leader, First PM of India, Head of Planning Commission (Post-Independence), First to join the Non-Aligned movement in the name of India

• Subhash Chandra Bose - Prominent figure, INA (AHF) founder, Youth wing leader

• Dr BR Ambedkar - Prominent figure, Poona pact, Author of the Indian Constitution - President of Drafting committee (Constituent Assembly)

• Captan Mohan Singh - In-charge of the INA

• Stafford Cripps - Cripps Mission (failed)

• Clement Atlee - Sympathiser, PM of Labour party, Partition of India

• Mountbatten - Plan, Indian Union and Pakistan, Indian Independence Act 1947, GG of free India

• Jinnah - First GG, Pakistan

• Liqat Ali Khan - First PM, Pakistan

• Dr Rajendra Prasad - President, Indian Constituent Assembly

Socioreligious reforms, Caste System, Education in British Rule

• William Jones, - Orientalist

• Nathaniel Halhed - Orientalist

• Henry Thomas Colebrook - Orientalist

• James Mill - Anglicist

• Thomas Babington Macaulay - Anglicist

• Raja Rammohan Roy - Part-Anglicist, Brahmo Samaj (Sati, child marriage, polygamy, caste distinctions, untouchability) establisher

• William Bentick - Banned sati (By RRR)

• Warren Hastings - Calcutta Madrasa

• Jonathan Duncan - Sanskrit College

• Charles Grant - Asked EIC to give up on non-interference in education, Father of modern Education (Charter 1813)

• William Wilberforce- Asked EIC to give up on non-interference in education

• GG Auckland - 9 edu zones in bengal

• Charles wood - Woods Despatch

• William Wilson Hunter - Hunter’s Commission

• Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - 35 schools for girls, Widow Remarriage Act

• Mahadev Govind Ranade - Supported Prathana Samaj, Founded National Social Conference to focus attention on social reforms

• Behramji Malabari - Journalist in “THE TIMES”, Wrote about problems

• Dr Karve - Promoted Widows to be teachers

• Vishnu Shastri - Widow Remarriage Assn.

• Swami lakshmi dayanand - Arya Samaj- educating women thru kanya gurukuls

• Syed ahmed khan - Algarh Movement- education emancipation, women

• Venkata Ratnam Naidu - Against Devadasi

• Veerasalingam Pantulu - Support widow remarriage, Hitkarini - women emancipation

• Pandita Ramabhai - Sharada Sadan, Widow school

• Sarojini Naidu - Scial Woker

• SATYA SHODHAK SAMAJ
  i) Jyotiba Phule

• JUSTICE MOVEMENT - C N Mudaliar, T  M Nair and TYagaraja Chetti -