| Rajaram Mohun | Laid stress on the study of English & established the Hindu College in Calcutta | |
| Roy | alongwith David Hare. | |
| Maharishi | The grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore. He inspired a number of thinkers like | |
| Devendranath | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar & Akshay Kumar Datta who became Brahmo Samaj | |
| Tagore | members. He din’t perform his fathers antyeshti samskara as it involved idol | |
| worship. | ||
| Keshav Chandra | He was greatly inspired with the lives of John the Baptist, Jesus Christ & hence he |
| Sen | came in confrontation with Devendranath Tagore. Consequently the Brahmo Samaj |
| was split into the Brahmo Samaj of India under him & Adi Brahmo Samaj under | |
| Devendranath. He opposed child marriage but married her own minor daughter to | |
| Maharaja of Cooch-Behar. Hence there was a further split into Neo Brahmo Samaj | |
| under him & Sadharan Brahmo Samaj | |
| Ishwar Chandra | Became principal of Sanskrit college in Calcutta. Opened the Sanskrit college for |
| Vidyasagar | non Brahmin students. He founded ‘Bethune School at Calcutta’ to encourage |
| female education. | |
| Bankim Chandra | First graduate of Calcutta University which was estd in 1857 based on the lines of |
| Macaulay Minute. He became a deputy collector. Wrote the famous Bande Matram | |
| (Anand Math) & published Banga Darshan magazine. | |
| Ramakrishna | Became a priest in the temple of Goddess Kali at Dakshineshwar. |
| Paramhamsa | (1836-86) |
| Swami | In 1893 he attened the Parliament of Religions at Chicago. In 1897 he established |
| Vivekanand | the Ramakrishna Mission. His disciple, Sister Nivedita even helped many |
| (1863-1902) | revolutionaries from Bengal directly. |
| Swami Dayananda | Known in early life as Mul Shankar & born in Gujarat. Received his education at |
| 1824-83 | the feet of Swami Virajananda at Mathura. Founded Arya Samaj in 1875 based on |
| a set of 28 principles (later 10). He estd the HQ of Arya Samaj at Lahore. Passed | |
| away on Diwali at Jodhpur following the mixing of glass powder in his drink. | |
| Through his Satyartha Prakasha he emphasized Vedas. He laid emphasis on the | |
| worship of a formless god & abandonment of idolatory. He emphasized on | |
| Ashrama system of education. He stressed on swadeshi, swadharma, swabhasha & | |
| swarajya. He considered Vedas as infallible. | |
| Jyotibha Phule | In 1873 he founded Satya Shodhak Samaj. Gave testimony before Hunter |
| Commission against Christian missionaries. Later given the title ‘Mahatma’. | |
| Sayyid Ahmad | In 1875 founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental College at Aligarh which later |
| Khan | became Aligarh University. Opposed polygamy, purdah, abolition of the practice of |
| easy divorce, reform in madrasa. | |
| Freedom Fighters | |
| Lokmanya Tilak | Introduced the celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi & Shivaji festivals. Paticipated in |
| 1856-1920 | Home Rule Movement in 1916. Called by Britishers as ‘Biggest Traitor’ & ‘Father |
| of Indian dissatisfaction’ | |
| Lala Lajpat Rai | Sher-e-Punjab. Was sent to Jail at Mandey on the charges of seditious activities. |
| Sri Aurobindo | His development of National education & editing of Bande Mataram (started by |
| Ghosh | Bipin Chandra Pal) gave momentum to Bengal partition movement. Left Baroda to |
| work in the National College in Calcutta. | |
| Chapekar Brothers | Chapekar Brothers – Damodar & Balakrishna. Killed two British officials Rand & |
| Aryst. Celcbrated Shivaji & Ganesh Utsavs. | |
| Savarkar Brothers | Ganesh Savarkar, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar & Narayana Savarkar. V.D. |
| Savarkar organized the New India Association in London. Organizing lectures at | |
| the India House founded by Shyamji Krishna Verma. He was linked to the | |
| assassination of Jackson at Aurangabad. Sentenced to imprisonment in the | |
| Andamans from 1911-24. | |
| Shyamji Krishna | India House had become centre of V.D Savarkar, Sardar Singh Rana, Madam |
| Verma | Bhikaji kama & Madan Lal Dhingra. |
| Madam Kama | Represented India in the Interinational Conference at Stutteguard in Germany. |
| Madan Lal | He short dead the assistant of the Secretary of State Curzon Wyllie. Gopal Krishna |
| Dhingra | Gokhale clled it as a heinous act meant to spoil the name of India. |
| Chandra Shekhar | Involved in the assassination of Saunders (officer who ordered the Lathi Charge in |
| Azad | which Lala Lajpat was killed), alongwith Bhagat Singh & Rajguru. He had chalked |
| out a plan to blow up the train in which the Viceroy Lord Irwin was traveling. He | |
| was killed in a police encounter at Alfred Park in Allahabad. | |
| Harkishen Talwar | Shot the Governor of Punjab but the latter escaped with injuries only Later |
| Harkishen was hanged. | |
| Bhagat Singh | In association with Chhabil Das & Yashpal he had founded the Punjab Naujavan |
| Bharat Sabha. | |
| Rani Gaidinliu | Lead the Nagas in the revolt. Yadunaga was the other leader. |
| Subhas Chandra | Passed the Civils in 1920 but preferred to serve the nationalist cause. He was |
| Bose | elected the Mayor of Calcutta in 1923 but soon arrested & sent to Mandalay. |
| Elected President at the Haripura session of Congress in 1938. He left for Kabul | |
| along with his friend Bhagat Ram. From there he went to Germany & met Hitler. | |
| He was first addressed as Netaji in Germany. | |
| Udham Singh | Whilst living in England in 1940, Singh shot dead Sir Michael O’Dwyer, former |
| Governor General of the Punjab. |
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