Freedom Fighters of Punjab

Freedom Fighters of Punjab

BABA GURDIT SINGH

He was born in 1860 at Sarhali, district Amritsar of the Punjab.

BABA GURMUKH SINGH
He was born in 1888 at Lalton Khurd, District Ludhiana.

BABA HARI SINGH USMAN
He was born in 1880 at Baddowal, District Ludhiana.

BABA JAWALA SINGH
He was born in village Thatian, District Amritsar.

BABA KHARAK SINGH
Baba Kharak Singh was born in 1868 at Sialkot.

BABA SHER SINGH
Sher Singh was born in 1880 at village Wain Poin, District Amritsar.

BAL RAJ BHALLA
Bal Raj Bhalla was born in June, 1888 in Tehsil Wazirabad of Gujranwala District.

BALDEV SINGH
He was born in 1901 at village Dumna in the then district of Ambala.

BALWANT SINGH
He was born in 1882 at village Khurdpur, District Jalandhar.

BANTA SINGH
He was born in 1890 at village Sanghowal, District Jalandhar and was an important leader of the Ghadar Party.

SHAHEED BHAGAT SINGH
Bhagat Singh(28 September 1907 – 23 March 1931) was an outstanding revolutionary and martyr of the Indian anti-colonial movement. He represented the youth who were dissatisfied with Gandhian politics and groped for revolutionary alternatives.

BHAGWAN SINGH LONGOWALIA
He was born at Longowal in Patiala State. Bhagwan singh joined the Akali agitation for gurudwara reform in 1922 and soon became its prominent worker participating in diwans and activities connected with forcible occupation of gurdwaras.

BHAGWATI CHARAN
Bhagwati Charan was born at Lahore in a Brahmin family of District Gujarat.

BHAI BAL MUKAND
He was born in 1889 at village Kariala, District Jhelum (now in Pakistan).

BHAI PARMANAND
A prominent public figure of the Punjab, Bhai Parmanand descended from the family of the famous Sikh martyr, Bhai Mati Das.

BHAI RAM SINGH
He was born in 1826 at village Bhaini in the District of Ludhiana.

UDHAM SINGH
Udham Singh was one of the great patriots of India, with a burning desire to see his motherland free from the clutches of British colonialism and imperialism. According to British records, he was born at Sunam Village, Patiala State, on 23 August 1901, and was known at various stages in his relatively short life by the following names: Sher Singh, Udham Singh, Udhan Singh, Ude Singh, Frank Brazil and Mohemed Singh Azad.

SUKHDEV
He was a member of the Revolutionary Party in Lahore and a close associate of Saheed Bhagat Singh. Like Bhagat Singh, he took active part in revolutionary activities and helped in organizing revolutionary cells in the Punjab and other areas of North India.

SOMPRAKASH SHAIDA
A distinguished firebrand of the student community, Somprakash was born on 19th June 1919 in a Brahmin family of Attock. He had his early schooling at the Sanatam Dharam High School, Rawalpindi and his higher education at the D.A.V. College, Lahore.

SOHAN SINGH JOSH
A veteran freedom fighter, Sohan Singh Josh was born on 12th November, 1898 at village Chetnapura, District Amritsar. His father, Lal Singh, was keen on the good schooling of his son, but the difficulty was that there was no school nearby.

SOHAN SINGH BHAKNA (Baba)
Born in January, 1870 at village Khutral Khurd, District Amritsar, Sohan Singh was the only son of Sardar Karam Singh, a well-to-do peasant who died when Sohan Singh was hardly a year old. As there was no school in the village, Sohal Singh received his early education at the local Gurudwara.

SOHAN LAL PATHAK
Sohan Lal was born on 7th January 1883 in the house of Pt. Chanda Ram, a poor Brahmin of Patti, District Amritsar. Being a brilliant student, he won scholarships and prizes a number of times while he was at the local school.

SEWA SINGH THIKRIWALA
Real founder of the Praja Mandal movement in the Punjab and giant among freedom fighters, Sewa Singh was born in August 1878 at village Thikriwala, Patiala State. His father, Dewa Singh, was an important official in the same state. When he grew up, Sewa Singh also got appointment as a State official.

SETH SUDARSHAN
A great financier and leader of the Punjab Congress, Seth Sudarshan was born at Jhansi in 1903. After studying for a while at Allahabad at the Convent School, he came to Karnal from where he passed the Matriculation examination of the Panjab University, Lahore.

SETH SANT RAM
He was born at Lahore in 1889. His father, Jamiat Rai Seth, was in Government service. Sant Ram received his early education in Government High School, Kasur.

SARDUL SINGH CAVEESHAR
A front-ranking freedom fighter, Sardul Singh Caveeshar was born at Amritsar in 1886. He had his degree in post-graduate studies from the Panjab University, Lahore in 1909. During the period of his studies he proved himself a first class football and Cricket player.

LALA PINDI DAS
Lala Pindi Das hailed from village Vaniawaal, District Gujranwala (now in Pakistan). He was born in June 1886. His father Lala Isher Das was a rich and prosperous man widely respected by the people of the locality. 

LALA JAGAT NARAIN
A Chopra Khatri by caste, he was born at Wazirabad, District Gujranwala (now in Pakistan) in 1889. He graduated from D.A.V. College, Lahore in 1919. After that he joined the Law College, Lahore but left his studies in 1920 at the call of Mahatma Gandhi and joined the non-cooperation movement. He was arrested in 1921 and was sentenced in two and a half years imprisonment.

LALA HAR DAYAL 
Lala Har Dayal played a very important role in the struggle for India’s independence, He was born at Delhi on October 14, 1884. His father, Gaury Dayal Mathur, a Reader in the District Courts at Delhi, was not a man of wealth but  a scholar of Persian and Urdu. 

LALA DUNI CHAND
Born in 1873, Lal Duni Chand passed his B.A. examination from the Forman Christian College, Lahore. After that he joined the Oriental College, Lahore where from he passed the Honors examination in Persian language and literature in 1894.

KRISHNA GOPAL DUTT
An intellectual prodigy and a noted freedom-fighter, he was born in January, 1899 at Sialkot in the house of a well-to-do businessman, Pandit Vaish Nath Dutt. He first studied at the Murry College, Sialkot and then shifted to Lajpat Rai’s National College, Lahore where-from he graduated in 1923.

KISHAN SINGH GARGAJ
The only son of his father Fateh Singh, Kishan Singh was born at village Baring, District Jalandhar. Before he entered on political activities, he was in the Indian Army for a period of about fifteen years serving in Battalion No. 35. 

KEDAR NATH SAIGAL
Kedar Nath Saigal, Managing Agent of the Mohini Films Ltd., Lahore, came under the spell of national politics during the days of the Punjab agrarian unrest in 1907. When Ajit Singh and Sufi Amba Prasad set up the Bharat Mata Society, he joined it and soon became an active political worker.

KARTAR SINGH JHABBAR
A popular hero of the Akali movement of 1921-25, he was born in 1874 at village Jhabian, District Sheikhupura, now in Pakistan. His father, Teja Singh, was a well-to-do Virk Jat agriculturist.

In the Struggle for Freedom

Komagat Maru: The Komagata Maru (also called Kamagata) was a Japanese steam liner, chartered in 1914 by Gurdit Singh, an affluent Sikh businessman, to carry 376 Indians, all Punjabis to Canada. The Ship embarked from Hong Kong before arriving in Canada.

Ghadar movement: The Ghadar movement was a movement of patriotic, progressive, democratic and enlightened Indians living abroad, working for the emanicipation of India from the clutches of British colonialism and the birth of a new India based on national and social emancipation. A weekly paper called ‘Ghadar’ (The Rebellion) was started with Lala Hardyal as Chief Editor.

Jallianwala Bagh Massacre: Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, involved the killing of hundreds of unarmed, defenseless Indians by a senior British military officer, which took place on 13^th April, 1919 in the heart of Amritsar, the holiest city of the Sikhs, on a day sacred to them as the birth anniversary of the Khalsa (Baisakhi day).

The massacre took place in the Jallianwala Bagh, a public garden in Amritsar and shooting was ordered by Brigadier-General Dyer.

Shaheed Udham Singh: Shaheed Udham Singh is known for his assassination of Sir Michael O’Dwyer in March 1940 what has been described as a revenge of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.

Gurudwara Reform Movement: Gurudwara Reform  Movement marked the struggle of the Sikhs from 1920-25 to wrest control of their places of worship from the mahants (priests) into whose hands they had passed during the 18^th century when the Sikhs were driven away from their homes to seek safety in remote hills and deserts.

SGPC: Sikh Gurudwaras Act, 1925 passed by the provincial legislative assembly in July 1925 and implemented with effect from 1 November 1925 created a “Board”, renamed Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee soon thereafter to provide for the better administration of certain Sikh Gurudwaras and for inquiries into matters and settlement of disputes connected therewith
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Guru Ka Bagh Morcha: Guru Ka Bagh morcha in Ghukkevali village, Tehsil Ajnala, District Amritsar is an account of a major campaign, just one of the many struggles by the Sikhs in the early 1920’s to seek justice, in regaining control of their own houses of worship.

Jaito Morcha: Jaito Morcha is the name given to the Akali agitation that took place in Febrauary 1924 for the restoration of the throne of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha, a Sikh princely state in the Punjab.

Punjab Riyasti Praja Mandal: Punjab Riyasti Praja Mandal was an organization of the people of the princely states of Punjab which was established in 1928 at Mansa to work for securing to them civil liberties and political rights.

Shaheed Bhagat Singh: Shaheed Bhagat Singh was born into a Sikh family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj, at village called ‘Khatkar Kalan’ in present SBS Nagar (Nawanshehr) district.

Shaheed Sukhdev: Shaheed Sukhdev was a famous Indian revolutionary who played a major role in the India’s struggle for Independence. Sukhdev was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA) and organized revolutionary cells in Punjab and other areas of North India. He along with other renowned revolutionaries started the ‘Naujawan Bharat Sabha’ at Lahore.

Shaheed Rajguru: Shaheed Rajguru was a revolutionist from Maharashtra. He was a colleague of Bhagat Singh and Sukhdev and took part in the murder of a British police officer, J.P. Saunders, at Lahore in 1928.