Christian freedom fighters of India

Incomplete essay, This is a list of individuals who campaigned against or are considered to have campaigned against the colonial rule on the Indian sub-continent.

List of Christian freedom fighters of India

Name	Birthday	Death	Activity
Jijo James	1909	(not available)	Popularly known as the Seejo of Kaaarankadu.
Rosamma Punnoose	1913	2013	Indian independence activist, politician and lawyer.
Annie Mascarene	1902	1963	Indian freedom fighter and Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Titusji	1905	1980	One of the 78 marchers selected by Mahatma Gandhi to take part in the 1930 Dandi March. “He was the only Christian among the 79 satyagrahis who marched from Sabarmati to Dandi village for the Salt sathyagraha. The British authorities had put him in jail at Yerawada, and later shifted to Nasik and Jalali for breaking the salt law,”. A devout Gandhian – he was known by the name Titus in his earlier days. Titusji the name given to him by Mahatma Gandhi as a token of love and honor.
George Joseph (Kerala)	1887	1938	A lawyer and Indian independence activist. One of the earliest and among the most prominent Syrian Christians from Kerala to join the freedom struggle. He was one of the three members of the Home Rule deputation sent to England in 1918 to present the Indian case before the British public. It has been said that the landslide in the opinion of the Indian Christian Community in favor of nationalism was very much ascribable to his dynamic leadership. He was one of the first batches of barristers who sacrificed their comforts to engage themselves in national work and joined the Non-Cooperation Movement and boycott of foreign cloth shops. George Joseph was also invited to assume the leadership of the Satyagraha movement. He led the Vaikom Satyagraha for which he was beaten and arrested and sentenced to imprisonment. Mahatma Gandhi wrote to George Joseph on 6 April 1924 that the latter should let the Hindus do the job and not offer Satyagraha himself so far as the Nagpur resolution of the Congress had called on the Hindus to wipe out untouchability. However, before the letter reached, George Joseph had already joined the Satyagraha. In 1937 George Joseph was elected to the Central Legislative Assembly.
T. V. Thomas	1910	1977	One of the first generation trade union leaders in Kerala and was actively involved in the Indian independence movement.
Madhusudan Das	1848	1934	A well-known leader from the Christian community in Odisha, popularly known as "Utkal Gourab". He was the first graduate and advocate of Odisha.
Kali Charan Banerjee	1847	1907	A talented orator and representative of the Bengali Christian community. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1885 and regularly addressed the Congress's annual sessions in molding the policy of national movement.
J. C. Kumarappa	1892	1960	An Indian economist and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. Kumarappa worked to combine Christian and Gandhian values of "trusteeship", non-violence and a focus on human dignity and development in place of materialism as the basis of his economic theories.
Joachim Alva	1907	1979	An Indian lawyer, journalist, and politician from Mangalore. He was a prominent Christian figure involved in the Indian independence movement.
Violet Alva	1908	1969	An Indian lawyer, journalist, and politician, and Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, and member of the Indian National Congress (INC).
Harendra Coomar Mookerjee	1887	1956	H.C. Mukhherjee was the Vice-President of the Constituent Assembly of India for drafting the Constitution of India before Partition of India, and the third Governor of West Bengal after India became a republic with partition into India and Pakistan. He was an educationalist, a prominent Christian leader of Bengal, and was the chairman of the Minority rights committee and Provincial constitution committee of the Constituent Assembly.
A. J. John	1893	1957	Anaparambil Joseph John was a Travancore freedom fighter and statesman. He was Chief Minister of Travancore-Cochin and Governor of Madras State.
Joseph Baptista	1864	1930	Joseph "Kaka" Baptista (17 March 1864 – 1930) was an Indian politician and activist from Bombay (today known as Mumbai), closely associated with the Lokmanya Tilak and the Home Rule Movement.He was the first president of the Indian home rule league established in 1916. He was elected as the Mayor of Bombay in 1925.
Lambert Mascarenhas	1914	2021	Lambert Mascarenhas was a journalist, freedom activist and writer from Goa. His family hails from the Goan Catholic community, a Christian community in Goa.
Barhmabandhab Upadhyaya	1861	1907	Barhmabandhab Upadhyaya a ‘Hindu Catholic’ sadhu and theologian, played a leading role in the Swadeshi Movement. He was also one of the early leaders who enunciated the philosophy of the Non-Co-operation Movement. He edited Sandhya, a national journal founded in 1904, and it had a decisive influence on the masses because it was the only vernacular paper in Bengali, which boldly advocated complete Indian Nationalism.
Jerome A. Saldanha	1868	1947	Jerome Antony Saldanha, who represented the South Kanara district in the Madras Legislative Council, became a sincere admirer of Mahatma Gandhi. When Gandhiji visited Mangalore in 1927, Jerome, as the President of South Kanara District Congress Committee, presided at the public meeting addressed by the Mahatma. Though not an active freedom fighter, Jerome supported the freedom movement through articulation in writing, especially in Mangalore Magazine.
Pandita Ramabai	1858	1922	Pandita Mary Saraswati Ramabai is a feminist, women's right & education activist, a pioneer in the education and emancipation of women in India, and a social reformer. Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was one of the 10 women delegates In the Congress session of 1889.
P. T. Chacko	1915	1964	Pulloli Thomas Chacko was a prominent politician of Travancore and later Kerala. He was the first Leader of Opposition of the newly formed state of Kerala. He graduated from St. Joseph’s College, Trichy, the University of Madras after studying in St. Berchmans College Changanacherry. He continued his studies in law in Law College, Trivandrum, where, as a student leader in 1938, he launched himself into the freedom movement and the struggle for self-government in the princely State of Travancore.
K. C. Mammen Mappillai	1873	1953	Kandathil Cheriyan Mammen Mappillai was an Indian journalist, who became editor of the Malayalam language daily Malayala Manorama after his paternal uncle Kandathil Varghese Mappillai died. Besides being a noted journalist, he was an Indian independence activist and served a member of the Sree Moolam Popular Assembly in Travancore.
T. M. Varghese	1886	1961	T. M. Varghese was a freedom fighter, and statesman. Varghese was the founder member of the Travancore State Congress party. He was the foremost leader of the (Responsible government Struggle) struggle against C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer, the Dewan of Travancore State.
T. V. Thomas	1910	1977	T. V. Thomas was an Indian communist leader from Alleppey, Kerala. He entered politics through Travancore State Congress and was its State Committee Member. He was one of the first generation trade union leaders in Kerala and was actively involved in the Indian independence movement.
D. C. Kizhakemuri	1914	1999	Dominic Chacko Kizhakemuri, better known as D. C. Kizhakemuri, was a well-known writer, activist, freedom-fighter and book publisher from Kerala.
Amrit Kaur	1889	1964	Rajkumari Bibiji Amrit Kaur was an Indian activist and politician. Following her long-lasting association with the Indian independence movement, she was appointed the first Health Minister of India in 1947 and remained in office until 1957. As the health minister, Kaur played an instrumental role in the establishment of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi, and became its first president.
C. M. Stephen	1918	1984	C. M. Stephen was an Indian politician and Union Minister in the Republic of India. He was also one of the founding fathers of the Indian National Trade Union Congress, the trade union wing of the Indian National Congress. He started 'Pouraprabha' an evening daily. Through this daily, he supported the Travancore Congress and attacked the rule of C. P. Ramaswamy Iyer.
Vengal Chakkarai	1880	1958	Vengal Chakkarai Chettiar was an Indian Christian theologian, missionary, independence activist, politician and trade unionist. He was the former president of AITUC
Kali Charan Banerjee	1847	1902	Kali Charan Banerjee was a freedom fighter and one of the pioneers of Indian Christian movement. He was also one of the main orators of the Indian National Congress. After joining the INC in 1885, he along with many other Christian leaders like Peter Paul Pillai from Madras, the now Chennai, and G.C. Nath from Lahore, represented Indian Christians in four INC assembly meetings during the period between 1888 and 1891. With his active involvement in the politics, he could propose a lot of amendments to the British East India Company, leading to the introduction of multiple reform movements in the political and social scenarios back then. In 1889, he was instrumental in protesting against the prohibition of teachers participating in political movements, imposed by the Colonial British Raj in Calcutta.

External links

• "A Christian family marches with the beats of freedom". By Joe Palathunkal about Titusji.
• "Remembering the Mahatma of the Mar Thoma Church (Freedom Fighter) Rare Photos and Video". By nalloorlibrary about Titusji.
• "Christian Contribution to the Freedom Struggle". By Ambrose Pinto on. 20 August 2017.
• "Kali Charan Banerjee". By Anjali George on. 29 July 2018.
• "Christian Freedom Fighters". By Catholic Foxus on. 27 July 2018.

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