Prisoners and detainees of British India

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahātmā, first applied to him in 1914 in South Africa, is now used throughout the world.

Jawaharlal Nehru was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist, secular humanist, social democrat, and statesman who was a central figure in India during the middle of the 20th century. Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Upon India's independence in 1947, he served as the country's first prime minister for 16 years. Nehru promoted parliamentary democracy, secularism, and science and technology during the 1950s, powerfully influencing India's arc as a modern nation. In international affairs, he steered India clear of the two blocs of the Cold War. A well-regarded author, he wrote books such as Letters from a Father to His Daughter (1929), An Autobiography (1936) and The Discovery of India (1946), that have been read around the world.

Indian Bengali philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet and nationalist (1872–1950)

Prime Minister of India (1996, 1988-2004)

Indian barrister, leader of the Indian National Congress and founding father of the Republic of India (1875-1950)

Indian nationalist leader (1897-1945)

Prime Minister of India (1964-1966)

Prime Minister of India (1977-1979)

Indian poet, politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh from 1947 to 1949

politician, fifth President of India (1905-1977)

Indian politician and writer (1888–1958)

Indian self-rule activist (1856–1920)

Prime Minister of India (1979-1980)

Indian diplomat and politician (1900-1990)

Pashtun independence activist against British rule in India

wife of Mahatma Gandhi, an Indian leader of British era (1869-1944)

Indian lawyer and politician (1861–1931)

Indian advocate of nonviolence and human rights (1895-1982)

Indian politician (1883-1966)

Indian independence activist (1909-1996)

Indian author and politician (1865-1928)

India's First Freedom Fighter (1827–1857)

Indian politician and journalist (1912-1960)

Indian independence activist and political leader

Indian political activist and intellectual

Indian politician (1889–1964)

Kashmiri politician (1905-1982)

former Chief Minister of West Bengal, India (1882–1962)

Indian independence activist (1899–1936)

Indian scholar and author (1893 – 1963)

Indian politician (1903-1975)

Indian educator and politician

Indian politician and Naxalite leader (1918–1972)

Indian independence activist, writer and Mahatma Gandhi's personal secretary (1892–1942)

Indian poet (1904–1948)

Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer and educationist (1887-1971)

Indian politician and freedom fighter (1887–1961)

Indian politician (1910–1967)

Indian activist (1900–1957)

reformist, social activist, freedom-fighter and educator and writer of India

Indian freedom fighter, politician, and social worker

Indian freedom fighter (1882–1962)

Indian Muslim activist (1878–1931)

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh and India's first woman Chief Minister (1908–1974)

Indian politician (1888–1982)

colonial prison in India

Indian activist

Indian politician and scholar (1848–1925)

Indian writer

Indian communist politician and theorist and first Chief Minister of Kerala state (1909-1998)

Gandhi family member (1892-1956)

Indian politician (1899–1991)

Bengali revolutionary (1879-1915)

Indian freedom fighter (1920–2000)

Indian freedom fighter (1899–1985)

Indian politician (1880–1959)

Indian politician

former Deputy Prime Minister of India (1915-2001)

Indian revolutionary and nationalist

Sufi scholar