Netaji Nagar, Kolkata is named for the famous freedom fighter that died in what year?
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Netaji Nagar, Kolkata Netaji Nagar is a locality and part of South Kolkata and comes under the South Kolkata parliamentary area part of Tollygunj area. It is named after the famous freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and a statue of Bose is placed on the road which connects to the N.S.C Bose Road. It predominantly has lower to medium class residential area. Most of the people are Bengali Hindu refugee from East Pakistan, who were given land by government to rehabilitate them. They have settled here after 1947 partition of India. In the recent times people of all ethnicity including the old refugees live here. Starting from a refugee colony, the locality has grown both in size and facilities and has become one of the most Important localities of South Kolkata.
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Subhas Chandra Bose Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) 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 Imperial Japan left a troubled legacy. The honorific Netaji (Hindustani: "Respected Leader"), first applied in early 1942 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, was later used throughout India.
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Parbati Giri Parbati Giri (19 January 1926 - 1995), daughter of Dhananjay Giri. Nicknamed the "Mother Teresa of Western Odisha", was a prominent female freedom fighter from Odisha, India. The women freedom fighters of Orissa played a significant role in the Indian Freedom Struggle. Giri was born in Samlaipadar village near Bijepur of the present Bargarh district and undivided Sambalpur district on 19 January 1926.
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Gulab Singh Lodhi Martyr Gulab Singh Lodhi a resident of Unnao, was a freedom fighter shot dead by a British officer in August 1935 when he climbed a tree in the park with the tri-colour flag defying government order. He died at Jhandewala Park in Aminabad, Lucknow.
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Bhai Pratap Dialdas Bhai Pratap (Sindhi: ڀائي پرتاب ڏيئل داس‎ ), was an Indian businessman, philanthropist and freedom fighter, best remembered as the founder of the towns of Adipur and Gandhidham to resettle refugees from Sindh after the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan in August 1947, .
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Kovai Subri Kovai Subri was a Tamil revolutionary and freedom fighter during the Indian Independence Movement.
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Banke Chamar Banke Chamar was a freedom fighter who died for his actions in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. He was from Kuarpur village, Machhali Shahar, Jaunpur Janpad. After the failure of the rebellion, Chamar and his 18 associates were declared "baghis"(rebels). Chamar was hanged after being arrested.
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Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury (Bengali: উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায়চৌধুরী ), also known as Upendrokishore Ray (উপেন্দ্রকিশোর রায় ) (12 May 1863 – 20 December 1915) was a famous Bengali writer, painter, violin player and composer, technologist and entrepreneur.
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S. Sambhu Prasad Sivalenka Sambhu Prasad (26 January 1911 – 8 June 1972) was a journalist and Indian National Congress politician, who took over the Daily News Paper Andhra Patrika (Daily Telugu language Newspaper), Andhra Sachitra Vara Patrika (Telugu Language Weekly Magazine) and Bharathi (Telugu Language Monthly covering classical Literature) which were published from Chennai City (then Madras) which was the capital of Composite State of Madras (Madras Presidency) from his father-in-law Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao, the founder of Andhra Patrika group of publications in 1903, inventor of "Amrutanjan", a pain balm with natural ingredients, in 1893 and a freedom-fighter. After taking over he led the group of publications from 1938 to 1972. Rao also bequeathed all properties and Amrutanjan business to Sambhu Prasad, which he ran along with publications. During Sambhu Prasad's lifetime there were many important events in India, including the Second World War, the Independence of India, and much of the life, and the death, of Mahatma Gandhi. He was called "Ayyavaru" (Teacher and Guru) by his employees.
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Kamala Nehru Kamala Kaul Nehru (   ; 1 August 1899 – 28 February 1936) was a freedom fighter, wife of Jawaharlal Nehru (leader of the Indian National Congress and the Prime Minister of India), and the mother of Indira Gandhi, also another Prime Minister. Her grandson Rajiv Gandhi too was a Prime Minister of India for a term of 5 years. She was known to be deeply sincere, highly patriotic, a women's rights activist, serious minded and sensitive.
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N. M. R. Subbaraman N. M. R. Subbaraman (14 August 1905 – 25 January 1983) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician from Tamil Nadu. He was a member of Parliament from the Madurai constituency (1962–1967). He was also called "Madurai Gandhi" for his Gandhian principles.
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Nana Patil Nana Patil, popularly known as "Krantisinh" ( lit. 'revolutionary lion'), was an Indian independence activist (freedom fighter) and Member of Parliament for the Communist Party of India representing Beed District of Marathwada region. Earlier, he had been a founder of the revolutionary Prati-sarkar formed in Satara district of west Maharashtra [Yedemachhindragad]. He died on 6 December 1976.
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Madhavrao Bagal Madhavrao Khanderao Bagal (28 May 1895 – 1986), also called Bhai Madhavrao Bagal, was a noted writer, artist, journalist, social reformer, political activist, orator and freedom fighter from Kolhapur.
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Amarendranath Chatterjee Amarendranath Chatterjee (Bengali: অমরেন্দ্রনাথ চট্টোপাধ্যায় ) (1 July 1880 – 4 September 1957) was an Indian independence movement activist. In charge of raising funds for the Jugantar movement, his activities largely covered revolutionary centres in Bihar, Odisha and the United Provinces.
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Niranjan Sengupta Niranjan Sengupta was a Bengali Indian revolutionary.
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Ramachandra Mohapatra Ramachandra Mohapatra (1 January 1905 – 5 May 1975) was born on 1 January 1905 in a village called Sailo Jharapada, 35 kilometres from Cuttack, Odisha and was a freedom fighter.
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Gopaldas Ambaidas Desai Gopaldas Ambaidas Desai (1887–1951) also called Darbar Gopaldas Desai was a former prince and later ruler of the State of Dhasa in Saurashtra and a noted Gandhian political and social activist. He is remembered as the first prince in India who gave up his principality to become a freedom fighter against the British Raj.
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Labanya Prabha Ghosh Labanya Prabha Ghosh (1897–2003), also called Labanya Devi, a Gandhian, was a prominent personality of the Indian freedom movement, from Purulia District of West Bengal. She lived for almost 106 years and during later part of her life, was forced to live in a poverty-stricken ashram, her only source of income being a pension paid for freedom fighters. All through her life, before and after independence of India, she fought for justice of common man.
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List of artistic depictions of Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of "Satyagraha" — the resistance of alleged tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon "ahimsa" or total nonviolence — which inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known in India and across the world with the honorific "Mahatma Gandhi" (Sanskrit: महात्मा "mahātmā" — "Great Soul") and as "Bapu" (Gujarati: બાપુ "bāpu" — "Father"). In India, he is recognised as the Father of the Nation by the political class and 2 October, his birthday, is commemorated each year on Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday and dry day.
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Lalmohan Sen Lalmohan Sen (Bengali: লালমোহন সেন ) was an Indian revolutionary who took part in the Chittagong Armoury Raid. He was imprisoned for 16 years. Shortly after his release he lost his life in the Noakhali genocide.
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Durgabai Deshmukh Durgābāi Deshmukh, Lady Deshmukh (15 July 1909 – 9 May 1981) was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, social worker and politician. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of India and of the Planning Commission of India.
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Awadhesh Pratap Singh Captain Kunwar Awadhesh Pratap Singh (born October 1888, Rampur Baghelan–died 16 June 1967, Kanpur) was a noted Indian politician and Indian independence activist.