Revolt of 1857 (Part-II)

Veer Savarkar was a freedom fighter. He called 1857 revolt as the first war of independence. He founded the following Organizations: Abhinav Bharat Society and Free India Society. He was also a member of India House.

He was not the founder of Hindu Mahasabha, but he did served as its president. He opposed the Quit India struggle in 1942, calling it a "Quit India but keep your army" movement. Savarkar endorsed the ideal of India as a Hindu Rashtra and is credited with developing the Hindu nationalist political ideology Hindutva.

Veer Savarkar was a freedom fighter. He called 1857 revolt as the first war of independence. He founded the following Organizations: Abhinav Bharat Society and Free India Society. He was also a member of India House.

He was not the founder of Hindu Mahasabha, but he did served as its president. He opposed the Quit India struggle in 1942, calling it a "Quit India but keep your army" movement. Savarkar endorsed the ideal of India as a Hindu Rashtra and is credited with developing the Hindu nationalist political ideology Hindutva.

Fazil Mohammad Khan supported Bahadur Shah Zafar in the 1857 revolt.
Sikander Begum was able to gain victory over the rebels of Sehore garrison, which broke the backbone of the rebels.

Rani of Jhansi sent a message to Sikander stating "As soon as I have my hands free, I shall deal with you at the point of a sword." to which Sikander replied, "I have firearms in readiness for you. Come when you will".

The Bhopal army surrounded the British garrison in Sehore, Sikander ensured safe passage for important British civilians.

• Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, known as Ghalib, was born on 27th December 1797. A legendary Urdu and Persian poet, he traced his ancestry to the Aibak Turks. He married at 13 and settled in Delhi. In 1850, Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II awarded him the titles Dabir-ul-Mulk and Najm-ud- Daula. He was appointed royal tutor for poetry and historian. After Ghalib's death in 1869, he was buried near the tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya, a famous sufi saint of the Chishti Order, in Hazrat Nizamuddin. He made Urdu letter writing more conversational.

• Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan, known as Ghalib, was born on 27th December 1797. A legendary Urdu and Persian poet, he traced his ancestry to the Aibak Turks. He married at 13 and settled in Delhi. In 1850, Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar II awarded him the titles Dabir-ul-Mulk and Najm-ud- Daula. He was appointed royal tutor for poetry and historian. After Ghalib's death in 1869, he was buried near the tomb of Nizamuddin Auliya, a famous sufi saint of the Chishti Order, in Hazrat Nizamuddin. He made Urdu letter writing more conversational.

Bhagat Singh was born into a Sikh family in 1907 in Lyallpur District, present-day Pakistan. Bhagat Singh's family members were involved in the freedom struggle and he was drawn towards the Indian independence movement from a very young age. As a child, he defied the British government by burning textbooks recommended by it.

Initially, he supported Mahatma Gandhi and the Non-Cooperation Movement. However, when Gandhiji withdrew the movement in the wake of the Chauri Chaura incident, Bhagat Singh turned to revolutionary nationalism. He was particularly affected by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (1919) and the violence against unarmed Akali protestors at Nankana Sahib (1921). Inspired by leftist writings he read widely, Bhagat Singh was an atheist and against capitalism.

Udham Singh was born as Sher Singh on December 26, 1899, in Sunam, Punjab. His father was a railway crossing watchman. After his father's death, he and his brother were taken in by the Central Khalsa Orphanage Putlighar in Amritsar.

He was deeply influenced by the Jallianwala Massacre that took place on April 13, 1919. He passed his matriculation exams in 1918 and left the orphanage in 1919. He united with the Ghadar Party in 1924 to organize Indians living abroad with the aim of overthrowing colonial rule.

In 1927, he was detained for unlawful ownership of weapons and was sentenced to five years in prison. Udham Singh is considered one of the most important revolutionaries of the Indian independence struggle. Following the Jallianwala Massacre, he shot Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab. General Dyer was the one who had ordered open firing on people protesting against the Rowlatt Act.

Educated Indians wanted to change India as a progressive state and the fact embedded in their mind was that Britishers would make this progress possible. But later on, they came to know about the cruel strategy of the British behind this.