Eminent Freedom Fighters and Personalities of Uttar Pradesh · UPPCS (Uttar Pradesh)

What the official syllabus says

Main Examination, General Studies V:
Eminent freedom fighters and personalities of UP.

For each person, learn the place, the period and one or two contributions. The lists below keep to people of the past and to standard facts.

Mangal Pandey (born in Ballia district): his attack at Barrackpore on 29 March 1857 and execution
Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi; Jhalkari Bai of her army
Begum Hazrat Mahal of Awadh, who led the resistance at Lucknow
Nana Saheb and his commander Tantia Tope at Kanpur; Azimullah Khan
Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah of Faizabad; Khan Bahadur Khan of Bareilly; Uda Devi of Lucknow

Madan Mohan Malaviya: founder of Banaras Hindu University, Congress president, champion of Hindi
Motilal Nehru: Swaraj Party, the Nehru Report (1928), Anand Bhawan in Allahabad
Jawaharlal Nehru (born Allahabad): Congress president at Lahore (1929), first Prime Minister of India
Purushottam Das Tandon: Speaker of the UP Legislative Assembly, champion of Hindi, Bharat Ratna (1961)
Govind Ballabh Pant: Premier of the United Provinces (1937), first Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Union Home Minister, Bharat Ratna (1957)
Lal Bahadur Shastri (born Mughalsarai): Prime Minister (1964 to 1966), 'Jai Jawan Jai Kisan'
Acharya Narendra Dev and Ram Manohar Lohia: socialist leaders
Rafi Ahmed Kidwai (Barabanki): Congress leader and Union minister
Sucheta Kripalani: Chief Minister of UP (1963), the first woman Chief Minister in India
Sarojini Naidu: Governor of the United Provinces (1947), the first woman Governor in India
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (born Allahabad): first woman President of the UN General Assembly (1953)
Raja Mahendra Pratap (Hathras): head of the Provisional Government of India set up in Kabul (1915)
Hasrat Mohani (Unnao): poet and leader, linked with the slogan 'Inquilab Zindabad'
Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi: editor of Pratap, Kanpur; killed while trying to stop riots (1931)
Chittu Pandey, the 'Sher-e-Ballia' of 1942; Baba Ramchandra and Madari Pasi of the peasant movements
Shyam Lal Gupta 'Parshad' (Kanpur): author of 'Vijayi Vishwa Tiranga Pyara'

Ram Prasad Bismil and Ashfaqulla Khan (both of Shahjahanpur); Roshan Singh; Rajendra Nath Lahiri
Chandra Shekhar Azad: commander of the HSRA, active in UP, died in Allahabad (1931)
Sachindra Nath Sanyal: a founder of the Hindustan Republican Association

Kabir and Ravidas (Varanasi); Tulsidas (Ramcharitmanas, in Awadhi); Surdas (Sursagar, in Braj); Malik Muhammad Jayasi (Padmavat)
Bharatendu Harishchandra: father of modern Hindi literature (Varanasi)
Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi, editor of Saraswati; Ramchandra Shukla, historian of Hindi literature; Hazari Prasad Dwivedi
Premchand (Lamhi, Varanasi): Godan, Gaban and short stories
Jaishankar Prasad (Kamayani), Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala', Mahadevi Verma (Jnanpith, 1982), Harivansh Rai Bachchan (Madhushala)
Urdu: Mirza Ghalib (born Agra), Akbar Allahabadi, Josh Malihabadi, Firaq Gorakhpuri (Jnanpith, 1969), Qurratulain Hyder (Jnanpith, 1989)

Ustad Bismillah Khan of Varanasi: shehnai, Bharat Ratna (2001)
Pandit Ravi Shankar (born Varanasi): sitar, Bharat Ratna (1999)
Girija Devi (Banaras thumri), Siddheshwari Devi, Kishan Maharaj (tabla)
Begum Akhtar (born Faizabad): ghazal and thumri
Pandit Birju Maharaj: Lucknow gharana of Kathak
Major Dhyan Chand (born Allahabad): hockey; his birthday, 29 August, is National Sports Day

Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Chaudhary Charan Singh, Rajiv Gandhi, V.P. Singh, Chandra Shekhar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were born in UP or represented UP seats in the Lok Sabha
Chaudhary Charan Singh: farmers' leader, a force behind UP's land reforms, first non-Congress Chief Minister of UP (1967)