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Bhikaji Cama was one the pioneers of India's struggle for independence. On August 21, 1907, an International Socialist Conference was being held at Stuttgart, a city in Germany. It was on this occasion that Bhikaji Rustom Cama unfurled the first version of the Indian national flag. She had been one of a small group who had helped design the flag, which represented different elements of the Indian nation and identity.

Khudiram Bose was a freedom fighter, who was one of the youngest revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. Khudiram and Prafulla Chaki were sent to Muzaffarpur, Bihar to assassinate Kingsford, the Calcutta Presidency Magistrate, and later, magistrate of Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He was sentenced to death for bombing which resulted in the deaths of 3 unrelated innocents: Mrs Kennedy, her daughter and a servant.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak earned the epithet of Lokamanya during the Home Rule movement. Home Rule Leagues were organizations established in April and September 1916 during WW I, by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and  Annie Besant. Many Indian revolutionaries suported the Britishers but Tilak and Besant considered this an opportunity to achieve independence from the British. Thus, they decided to organise a national alliance of leagues across India, specifically to demand Home Rule, or self-government.

Bhikaji Cama was one the pioneers of India's struggle for independence. On August 21, 1907, an International Socialist Conference was being held at Stuttgart, a city in Germany. It was on this occasion that Bhikaji Rustom Cama unfurled the first version of the Indian national flag. She was popularly known as ‘The Mother of the Indian Revolution’.

Tilak was a scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and ardent nationalist. He received his law degree in 1879. After finishing his education, he started teaching English and Mathematics at a private school in Poona. He developed the institution into a university college which aimed at educating the masses.

Tilak initiated Ganeshotsav and Shivaji Utsav in 1894 for national awakening. Shivaji Utsav was started on Fort Raigad. He used the traditional festivals to propagate nationalist ideas through songs and speeches.

In Kesari, Tilak defended the two young men and called for immediate swaraj. This was followed by the immediate arrest of Tilak by the British on charges of sedition. He was sentenced to a jail term from 1908 to 1914 in Mandalay in Burma. While n prison, he wrote `Gita Rahasya', a treatise on the Bhagavadgita.