Indian Freedom Fighters

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Dr. P.D. Hegde is a Freelance Writer. He is an M.Sc. from Karnatak University, and he has also completed his M.A. from the same University. Mr. Hegde has written books on subjects like, Education, Yoga, Personality Development, Psychology, Agriculture, History, Religion, Etc. Presently, being a freelance writer Mr. Hegde has written [published books] more than 135 books. [Among them 100 books are in English, and 35 books are in Kannada. About 21 Books are yet to be published.] His popular books are, Modern Psychology, Yoga the Spirit of Life, History of India, Criminology, Agro-Chemistry, History of Inventions, Amazing Animals, Prostitution the Curse of Life, Easy Methods to Learn About Computers, The Great Legends of East India, The Biography of Great Indians, Romantic Poets,..Etc. Mr Hegde has also worked as a Lecturer in a Degree college [Bangalore] for few years. At present Mr Hegde is engaged in writing books related to different subjects.

'Free India' was a dream of all Indians under the British rule. Everyone during that rule fought in some way or the other with a common aim of ending British and other colonial authorities in India. After a century of revolutions, struggle, blood shedding, battles and sacrifices, India finally achieved independence on August 15,1947 India was free in 1947 from the British Empire but the country lost many men and women who were filled with undaunted courage and spirit of patriotism. Today, they are known as freedom fighters because they sacrificed their lives for their motherland. Indian freedom fighters with their true spirit and undaunted courage had faced various tortures, exploitations and hardships to earn us freedom.

The entire history of the freedom movement is replete with the saga of bravery, sacrifice and political sagacity of great men and women of the country. This struggle which gained momentum in the early 20th century, threw up stalwarts like Mahatma Gandhi, Lala Lajpat Rai, Motilal Nehru, Abul Kalam Azad, C. Rajagopalachari, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Jawaharlal Nehru and Subash Chander Bose. Their number and stature often gives us an erroneous impression that it was only a man's movement. But it is not so. Many prominent women played a leading role in the freedom movement. The important place assigned to women in India dates back to the time of the Vedas and Smritis. Manu declared that where women were adored, Gods frequented that place, During the Vedic age the position of women in society was very high and they were regarded as equal partners with men in all respects. Who had not heard of Maitri, Gargi, Sati Annusuya and Sita? In keeping with this tradition, burden of tears and toils of the long years of struggle for India's freedom was borne by the wives, mothers, and daughters, silently and cheerfully. The programme of self-imposed poverty and periodical jail going was possible only because of the willing co-operation of the worker's family. In the various resistance movements in the villages, the illiterate women played this passive but contributory part as comrades of their menfolk.