Freedom Fighters - K
Honoring the brave souls who dedicated their lives to the independence and integrity of our motherland.
Kali Charan Banerjee
A Bengali Christian politician, he regularly addressed the Indian National Congress annual sessions in moulding the policy of national movement.[relevant?]
Kalpana Datta
Involved in the Indian Independence Movement; also part of the Chittagong armoury raid planning.
Kamal Nath Tewari
He was a freedom fighter and after independence he was elected as Member of Parliament from Bagaha (Now Valmikinagar) and Bettiah (Now Paschimi Champaran) Constituency respectively he was also in the panel of LokSabha Speaker and was the president of Estimate Committee.
Kanneganti Hanumanthu
A freedom fighter and farmer leader who spearheaded the Palnadu Rebellion.[5] As a part of the non-cooperation movement, Hanumanthu mobilised people to not pay the Pullari tax and organised a social boycott of British officials.[6][7] Under the leadership of Hanumanthu, the Chenchus of Nallamalla Hills fought against the British as a part of Palnadu forest satyagraha in 1921-22.[8] Executed by a firing squad of British Indian police.[5][9]
Kartar Singh Sarabha
A revolutionary, he helped with the Ghadar Party paper and the attempted Ghadar Mutiny.
Kazi Nazrul Islam
A nationalist, he called for revolution in his poetic works and publications.
Khudiram Bose
One of the youngest revolutionary martyrs, he was executed following an attempted assassination bombing which accidentally killed two bystanders instead of his intended target, the Viceroy of Bengal .
Kittur Chennamma
An Indian freedom fighter and rani of the Kittur, a former princely state in Karnataka. She led an armed force against the British East India Company in 1824 in defiance of the doctrine of lapse in an attempt to maintain Indian control over the region, but was defeated in the third war and died in prison.
K. Kamaraj
He was a freedom fighter and after independence he became as chief minister of Tamil Nadu and his rule for 9 years was the golden rule of Tamil Nadu.
Komaram Bheem
A tribal leader, he fought for the liberation of Hyderabad.
Krishnaji Gopal Karve
A revolutionary, he was executed as an accomplice to the murder of A. M. T. Jackson.
Kushal Konwar
An organizer of the Quit India movement, he was judged the mastermind of a troop train derailment and hanged.