The people who carried a nation

A barrister who returned from South Africa in 1915 and turned the freedom struggle into a mass movement rooted in truth and non-violence.

Twice Congress president, he left India in 1941 to raise an army abroad and formed the Provisional Government of Free India.

A young thinker of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association whose writings shaped a generation of radicals.

Refused to surrender Jhansi under the Doctrine of Lapse and led her forces in battle against the Company army.

Congress leader and writer imprisoned for nine years across the struggle, architect of modern India's institutions.

Leader of the Bardoli satyagraha and organiser of the Congress machine across the country.

Joined the Non-Cooperation movement at fifteen and vowed never to be captured alive.

The 'Nightingale of India', a poet who became the first Indian woman to preside over the Congress.

Editor of Kesari and Maratha, he used festivals and the press to build political consciousness.

Jurist, economist and social reformer who fought caste oppression and shaped India's constitutional order.