The monument is an imposing 42 meters high arch and was designed by the famous architect Edwin Lutyens. India gate was earlier named All India War Memorial. On top of the arch, INDIA is written on both sides. Names of over 70,000 Indian soldiers are inscribed on the walls of the monument in whose memory it is built.
India Gate also houses a small structure called Amar Jawan Jyoti, which consists of a marble pedestal with a cenotaph on its top. The cenotaph has the words 'Amar Jawan' written on all four sides in golden letters and also has a reversed rifle, capped by a soldier helmet, installed on it.
There is, however, an unofficial number, and it is revealing. According to CNN IBN's Minority Report, of India's one million soldiers only 3 percent are Muslims, or roughly 29,000 soldiers in all.
Conventional histories have counted only 100,000 Indian soldiers who were slaughtered in savage reprisals, but none have tallied the number of rebels and civilians killed by British forces desperate to impose order, claims Misra.
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Golwalkar, who became the leader of the RSS in 1940, continued and further strengthened the isolation from the independence movement. In his view, the RSS had pledged to achieve freedom through "defending religion and culture", not by fighting the British.
One reason why the British were reluctant to leave India was that they feared India would erupt into civil war between Muslims and Hindus. The country was deeply divided along religious lines. In 1946-47, as independence grew closer, tensions turned into terrible violence between Muslims and Hindus.
List of Indian freedom fighters
| Name | Birth | Death |
|---|
| Rani of Jhansi | 19 November 1828, Varanasi | 18 June 1858, Gwalior |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | 1869 | 1948 |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | 1875 | 1950 |
| Jawahar Lal Nehru | 1889 | 1964 |
There are 22,468 freedom fighters coming under the Netaji Subash Chandra Bose's Indian National Army category.
Tipu Sultan (born Sultan Fateh Ali Sahab Tipu, 20 November 1750 – 4 May 1799), also known as Tipu Sahab or the Tiger of Mysore, was the ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore based in South India, a pioneer of rocket artillery and a celebrated freedom fighter against the British.
Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja was one of the earliest freedom fighters in India. He was the prince regent of the princely state of Kottiyur or Cotiote in North Malabar, near Kannur, India between 1774 and 1805. He fought a guerrilla war with tribal people from Wynad supporting him.
List of Indian freedom fighters
| Name | Birth | Death |
|---|
| Asaf Ali | 1888 | 1953 |
| Rani of Jhansi | 19 November 1828, Varanasi | 18 June 1858, Gwalior |
| Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | 1869 | 1948 |
| Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel | 1875 | 1950 |
The Constitution of India provides the right of freedom, given in article 19 with the view of guaranteeing individual rights that were considered vital by the framers of the constitution. The right to freedom in Article 19 guarantees the freedom of speech and expression, as one of its six freedoms.
Definition of freedom fighter. : a person who takes part in a resistance movement against an oppressive political or social establishment.
As a result, he was arrested. On being presented before a magistrate, he gave his name as "Azad" (The Free), his father's name as "Swatantrata" (Independence) and his residence as "Jail". From that day he came to be known as Chandra Shekhar Azad among the people.
Indira Gandhi was born Indira Nehru into a Kashmiri Pandit family on 19 November 1917 in Allahabad. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a leading figure in India's political struggle for independence from British rule, and became the first Prime Minister of the Dominion (and later Republic) of India.
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He was also known as Pandit Nehru due to his roots with the Kashmiri Pandit community while Indian children knew him as Chacha Nehru (Hindi, lit., "Uncle Nehru"). As Congress President in 1929, Nehru called for complete independence from the British Raj and instigated the Congress's decisive shift towards the left.
It stands as a memorial to 70,000 soldiers of the British Indian Army who died in between 1914–1921 in the First World War, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the third Anglo-Afghan War.
