
India has been attacked by so many foreign invaders for its riches. We had to fight so many battles till we eventually won our freedom from the British on 15th of August, 1947. The iconic trio Krish, Trish and Baltiboy present the stories about the heroes who fought the war of freedom. This series attempts to bring alive glorious tales of valour and sacrifice using the medium of animation.
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November 19, 2023 • 12m•U/A 7+
Rani Abbakka of the Chowta dynasty ruled the Tullu Nadu region which was a part of coastal Karnataka. The city of Ullal served as her secondary capital. The Portuguese made many attempts to capture Ullal as it was of immense strategic importance geographically, but Rani Abbakka repulsed their attack. She was known as the first woman freedom fighter of India.
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October 14, 2023 • 11m•U/A 7+
Tilka Manjhi was first tribal leader from the Santhal community and an Indian freedom fighter who took up arms against British. He organized an armed group to fight against the British exploitation and tyranny during the famine of 1770. On 13th January 1784, Tilka Manjhi killed Augustus Cleveland who was the administrator of the Bengal province. The British finally caught him in 1784 and hung him.
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October 14, 2023 • 11m•U/A 7+
Peer Ali Khan was a bookseller by profession who owned a book shop in Patna. He played a leading role in the organization of the Great revolt of 1857. He secretly distributed pamphlets with coded messages to the freedom fighters through his books. He was publicly hanged by William Taylor, the then commissioner of Patna.
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October 14, 2023 • 11m•U/A 7+
Mangal Pandey, often referred to as the Indian rebel who shot the first bullet during the rebellion of 1857. Employed as a sepoy in the 34th Bengal Native infantry regiment of the British East India Company, he revolted, when the British introduced bullets smeared with cow and pig lard which was unholy to the Hindu and Muslim communities in India. He was arrested and hanged on 8th April 1857.
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October 14, 2023 • 11m•U/A 7+
Dhansingh Gurjar was a Kotwal (police chief) of Meerut, working for the British East India Company. He and many other policemen left the police force to participate in the 1857 rebellion. He gathered several villagers from his community, led them to the city jail in Meerut and released 839 prisoners who were imprisoned there.
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October 14, 2023 • 11m•U/A 7+
Veer Kunwar Singh was the Talukdar of Jagdishpur. He led the 1857 rebellion from Bihar at the age of 80, when the British started grabbing lands of Zamindars and Talukdars. He persuaded the Indian sepoys working with the British East India Company to join him and sieged Arrah, freeing the Indian rebels and then looting the granary, treasury and armory. He severed his wrist to continue to fight.
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October 15, 2023 • 11m•U/A 7+
Peshwa Nana Saheb and his chief strategist Tatya Tope, revolted against the British when the latter did not recognize Nana Saheb as the legal heir to the throne of Bithoor he was the adopted son of Bajirao II. Nana Saheb cleverly plotted against the British, and with Tatya Tope, came together with all like-minded heads of the states to begin a revolt simultaneously all over India on 31st May 1857.
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October 14, 2023 • 11m•U/A 7+
Nana Saheb and Tatya Tope's plan to begin the revolt simultaneously failed, but people had started revolting sporadically and it was becoming a great problem for the British. The British asked for Nana Saheb's help to subdue the revolt at Kanpur. Nana Saheb and Tatya Tope grab the opportunity to capture the Kanpur Fort. As a deal, he gives safe passage to a few Britishers escaping from rebels.
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November 24, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Manikarnika, popularly known as Rani Laxmibai. She accepted the marriage proposal of Maharaj Gangadhar Rao of Jhansi, even though he was much older than her to save Jhansi from the infamous law of Doctrine of Lapse. Maharaj Gangadhar Rao died soon. This gave the Britishers the opportunity to capture Jhansi. Rani Laxmibai gave a slip to the Britishers with the help of her trusted aid Jhalkari.
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December 11, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
A fierce battle ensued between Sir Hugh Rose and Rani Laxmi Bai. Rani Laxmibai gave a slip to the Britishers with the help of her trusted aid Jhalkari. She was ambushed enroute to Kalpi, but managed to escape. With the help of Tatya Tope, Rani Laxmibai captured the fort of Gwalior. Hugh Rose attacked Gwalior and in the battle that ensued, Rani Laxmibai attained martyrdom.
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December 11, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born on 31st May 1725, in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra, Rani Ahilyabai Holkar took over the reigns of Indore after the death of her father in law and husband. She was a great administrator and a skilled diplomat, loved and admired by her subjects. She constructed many temples throughout India and was instrumental in creating the famous Maheshwari Saree. She efficiently ruled Indore for 30 years.
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December 11, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born on 3rd January 1730 in Tamil Nadu, Rani Velu Nachiyar, also known as Veeramangai (brave woman), was the queen of Sivagangai. She was the first Indian queen to wage a war against the British East India Company. The British had taken over her kingdom. When Rani Velu Nachiyar found the place where the EIC stored their ammunition, her commander attacked the ammunition depot and destroyed it.
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December 11, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Rani Chennamma was born on 23rd October 1778 in Belgaum, Karnataka. She was the queen of Kittoor who led an armed resistance against the British East India company after the death of King Mallasarja and eventually her son King Shivlinga. When the British tried to take away her kingdom, she successfully overpowered the Britishers in the first attempt, but was eventually defeated in 1824.
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December 1, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born on 3rd January 1753, Kerala Varma was the king of Kottayam, a small kingdom in Northern Malabar (Kerala). In 1792, Veer Varma, Kerala Varma's uncle connived with the British to become the king of Kottayam. Kerala Varma always opposed the company rule and defied the British with his guerilla warfare. After a string of serious setbacks, the Company signed a peace treaty in 1797.
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December 11, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born on 26th Dec 1899, Udham Singh was an Indian revolutionary who survived the Jallianwala Baug massacre, ordered by British Lieutenant Governor Micheal O'Dwyer, in which hundreds of peaceful Indians lost their lives. Uddham singh vowed to eliminate Dwyer and after 21 years of pursuit, he fulfilled his vow.
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December 11, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Damodar Hari Chapekar was born in 1870, Balkrishna Hari Chapekar was born in 1873 & Vasudev Hari Chapekar was born in 1879 in Chinchwad, Pune. They were popularly known as the Chaphekar bandhu. In 1897, an epidemic of Plague broke out in Pune, which was very badly handled by the then Assistant Collector of Pune & Plague commissioner Walter Charles Rand.
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December 11, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Varma was born on 4th Oct 1857 in Kutch, Guajrat. He was an Indian patriot, lawyer and journalist. Influenced by Swami Dayanand Saraswati and Herbert Spencer's philosophy of "Resistance to aggression is not simply justified, but imperative", he founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London.
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December 22, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born on 3 December 1889 at district Midnapore West Bengal. Khudiram bose was one of the youngest Indian revolutionaries and matyr of the indian Independence movement. He, along with Prafulla Chaki, attempted to assassinate a British judge Kingsford, by throwing bombs on the carriage they suspected the man was in.
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December 8, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born on 4th Nov 1845, Vasudev Balwant Phadke was an Indian revolutionary. Moved by the atrocities done by the sahukars and the Britishers on farmers, he believed Swaraj to be the only solution. He led an armed revolt against the British by raiding their armories and treasuries.
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December 1, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Shivappa Nayak took over the reins of the kingdom from his corrupt nephew Veer Bhadra in 1645 on the insistence of his subjects. He build for himself the status of an efficient administrator, a soldier and a monarch par excellence. He braved the Portuguese who levied heavy taxes on the locals for conducting business and drove them out of the Keladi kingdom.
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December 8, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Buxi Jagabandhu was born at Rorar Garh around 1769 and was the chief commander of the Army of the Khurda king Mukunda Dev. He was infuriated when the British took control over Khurda, Cuttack & Puri and restricted the people of the region from making salt. He gathered support from other Paik leaders and started a rebellion against the British in 1817, which was known as the Paika rebellion.
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December 8, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born in 1706 in Attingal, he ascended the throne of Travancore (capital Padhmanabhapuram) situated in southern Kerela in 1729, at a mere age of 23. He was a visionary who led his kingdom to prosperity. He defied the Dutch East India company when they tried to set in their foot to control the region through trade and collaboration with the neighbouring kingdoms of Cochin and Kayemkulam.
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December 8, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born on 23rd February 1881, Sardar Ajit Singh, uncle of Bhagat Singh, was a revolutionary, who organised agitations against the anti-farmers laws known as the Punjab Colonisation Act 1906 and administrative orders increasing water rate charges. He started the Pagri Sambhal Jatta Movement and openly criticized the Indian colonial government.
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December 8, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born in 1802 , Tirot Sing, also known as U Tirot Sing Syiem, was a Khasi chief in the early 19th century. He declared war and fought against the British for attempts to take over the Khasi Hills. He ascended the throne of Nongkhlaw in 1820s. The British captured U Tirot singh in 1833, betrayed by some of his own men.
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December 8, 2024 • 11m•U/A 7+
Born on 29 December 1856, Manipur, Tikendrajit Singh also known as Lion of Manipur, was a Senapati of Manipur Kingdom who led the forces in the Anglo-Manipur War. Its safe to say he was a King maker who actually held all the power from behind the curtains. Lord Lansdowne ordered the arrest of Tikendrajit Singh, as according to the British it was, he who was responsible for all these disturbances.
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