Unsung Heroes - A Tribute

Umaji Naik

(7 September 1791– 3 February 1834)

Umaji Naik belonged to Ramoshi tribe. Ramoshi tribe is known to be fearless, so
Umaji Naik was a fearless revolutionary. The British had imposed restrictions on
Ramoshis that angered the tribe people and they started a revolt under the
guidance of Umaji Naik. He with his associate Sattu Naik captured many lands
and initiated various revolutionary activities against British. They got arrested
too. After release from jail the continued revolutionary activities of Umaji Naik
and his associates infuriated the British. Umaji Naik sacked a Police Station in
1826 in Jejuri to threaten the British Government. He was imprisoned on 15th
December 1831 and later hanged at Pune on 3rd February 1834.

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V. Subbiah

(7 February 1911 – 12 October 1993)

V. Subbiah, a freedom fighter, founder of the Trade Union Movement in
Puducherry. Born and raised in Pondicherry, Subbiah studied at the Calve
College High School, but he was expelled from the school after organizing an
agitation. During the early phase of his life, Subbiah was influenced by
Mahatma Gandhi and joined the Indian National Congress. He founded the
‘Harijan Sevak Sangh’ in 1933. Moreover, he launched a publication called
‘Sutantiram’ ('Independence'). Soon he was recruited into the communist
movement after having befriended Amir Hyder Khan and S.V. Ghate. He took
part in agitations in different areas of the Madras Presidency. He was jailed both
by French and British colonial authorities and moved underground when not in
jail.

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V.O. Chidambaram Pillai

(1872-1936)

Valliyappan Ulaganathan Chidambaram Pillai, popularly known as V.O.C., also
known as ‘Kappalottiya Tamizhan’ and ‘Tamil Helmsman’. ‘The Swadeshi
Movement’ in Tamil Nadu came to National attention in 1906 when V.O.
Chidambaram Pillai launched the first indigenous Indian shipping service
between Tuticorin and Colombo with the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company
(SSNC), competing against the monopoly of British ships. He was charged with
sedition by the British government and sentenced to life imprisonment and his
barrister license was revoked. A sentence of two life imprisonments (in effect
forty years) was imposed. He was in solitary confinement at the Central Prison,
Coimbatore from 9th July 1908 to 1st December 1910.

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Veer Chandra Singh Garhwali

(25 December 1891— 1 October 1979)

Chandra Singh Garhwali was a soldier in the British army. His refusal to fire on
unarmed, peaceful civilians averted a massacre which sparked off the
‘Peshawar Revolt’ of 1930. As a result he was imprisoned for 11 years. He was
then a leader of the Garhwal Rifle Regiment that revolted by refusing to open
fire on a group of unarmed Pathans who were resisting the British rule using
non-violent means, thereby preventing another massacre on the scale of
Jallianwala Bagh. He was a member of the Arya Samaj and was deeply
influenced by Gandhian thought. This important freedom fighter continued to
work against caste and communal oppression after India’s independence.
Earlier he also fought in the British army during the Second World War.

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Veer Narayan Singh

(1795 - 10 December 1857)

Veer Narayan Singh, was a tribal mass leader of Chhattisgarh during the 1857
struggle and was the first martyr of Chhattisgarh in the 1857 War of
Independence. He was born in 1795. Shahid Veer Narayan Singh was fearless
and revolted against the British and their oppressive Tax Regime. He threw
open to the people the granaries of zamindars in Raipur district after a severe
famine. He was booked under robbery and arrested on 24th October 1856. The
common people and soldiers rescued him from Raipur jail on 28th August 1857.
He fought the British valiantly with an Army of 500 soldiers but was finally
captured and hanged to death at a public square at Jaistambh Chowk, Raipur on
10th December, 1857.

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Veera Rani Abbaka

(1525-1570)

Veera Rani Abbaka was the first Tuluva Queen of Ullal who fought the
Portuguese in the latter half of the 16th Century. She belonged to the Chowta
dynasty who ruled over parts of coastal Karnataka (Tulu Nadu). Their capital
was Puttige. The port town of Ullal served as their subsidiary capital. The
Portuguese made several attempts to capture Ullal as it was strategically
placed. Abbaka repulsed each of their attacks for over four decades. For her
bravery, she came to be known as ‘Abhaya Rani’ (The dangerous queen). She
was also one of the earliest Indians to fight colonialism and is sometimes
regarded as the 'first woman freedom fighter of India'. In the state of Karnataka,
she is celebrated as the foremost woman warrior and patriot.

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Veerapandiya Kattabomman

(1760—16 October 1799)

Veerapandiya Kattabomman also known as Kattabomma Nayak was an 18th-
century Palayakarrar and Chieftain in Panchalamkurichchi, Tamilnadu. He
refused to accept the sovereignty of the British East India Company and waged
a war against them. He was captured by the British with the help of the ruler of
the Kingdom of Pudukottai, Vijaya Raghunatha Tondaiman and at the age of 39
he was hanged at Kayathar on 16th October 1799. His defiance of the East India
Company has led to many local folklore.

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Velu Nachiyar

(1730-1796)

She was the first Queen to wage a war against the British. She is known by
Tamils as ‘Veera Mangai’ (brave woman). The former princess of
Ramanathapuram opposed the East India Company rule even before 1857. Velu
Nachiyar employed her intelligence gathering agents to discover where the
British stored their ammunition. One of her followers Kuyili, doused herself in
oil, set herself alight, and walked into the storehouse. She also employed
another agent, her adopted daughter Udaiyaal, to detonate a British arsenal
blowing herself up along with the barracks. Velu Nachiyar formed a Woman’s
Army and engaged the British in numerous skirmishes till her death in 1796. Till
her death she remained a implacable and virulent foe of the British.

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Vijay Singh Pathik

(1882-1954)

Vijay Singh Pathik (Bhoop Singh Gurjar) born in Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh is
popularly known as ‘Rashtriya Pathik’. Much before Mahatma Gandhi he
initiated the ‘Satyagrah Movement’, Pathik experimented during the ‘Bijolia’s
Kisan Agitation’. He changed his name to Vijay Singh Pathik after being
implicated in the ‘Lahore Conspiracy Case’ in 1915. His ‘Non-Cooperation
Movement’ was so successful that Lokmanya Tilak wrote a letter to Maharana
Fateh Singh to meet the demand of the Bijolia agitators. He was jailed for
leading the Kisan agitation in Bijolia and kept at a special jail created in the
Tehsil building of Todgarh. The Kisan Panchayat, Mahila Mandal and Yuvak
Mandal invited Pathik to lead them. Pathik made people realise that equality of
status of women was necessary to develop a prosperous society.

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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Cadre Batch
AGMUT 1994
Sl. No. Name of the Participants AGMUT 2004
1 Dr. Sharat Chauhan AGMUT 2004
2 Garima Gupta AGMUT 2005
3 Shurbir Singh AGMUT 2005
4 Ashish Madhaorao More AGMUT 2005
5 H. Lalengmawia AGMUT 2005
6 Niharika Rai AGMUT 2006
7 Vijay Kumar Bidhuri AGMUT 2006
8 Ashok Kumar Assam-Meghalaya 2004
9 Rupesh Kumar Thakur Assam-Meghalaya 2005
10 S. S. Meenakshi Sundaram Chhattisgarh 2003
11 Vishal Vasant Solanki Chhattisgarh 2004
12 Reena Babasaheb Kangale Chhattisgarh 2004
13 Alarmelmangai Deekaram Chhattisgarh 2005
14 Anbalagan Ponnusamy Gujarat 2001
15 Rajat Kumar Haryana 2001
16 Vijay Ramchandra Nehra Haryana 2004
17 Amneet P. Kumar Himachal Pradesh 2005
18 C. G. Rajinikaanthan
19 Ritesh Chauhan

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Sl. No. Name of the Participants Cadre Batch
20 Hirdesh Kumar Jammu & Kashmir 1999
21 Kripa Nand Jha Jharkhand 2005
22 Vipra Bhal Jharkhand 2006
23 Manoj Kumar Jharkhand 2006
24 Dr. Ekroop Caur Karnataka 2001
25 Manoj Kumar Meena Karnataka 2003
26 Vipul Bansal Karnataka 2005
27 Pranabjyoti Nath Kerala 2005
28 Ajit Kumar Kerala 2006
29 Raghuraj Madhav Rajendran Madhya Pradesh 2004
30 Rahul Ranjan Mahiwal Maharashtra 2005
31 Tukaram Mundhe Maharashtra 2005
32 Virendra Singh Maharashtra 2006
33 Nidhi Kesarwani Manipur 2004
34 Arun Sekhri Punjab 2004
35 Dr. Manashvi Kumar Punjab 2004
36 Manvesh Singh Sidhu Punjab 2004
37 Shruti Singh Punjab 2004
38 Daljit Singh Mangat Punjab 2005
39 Dilraj Singh Punjab 2005

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Sl. No. Name of the Participants Cadre Batch
40 Gurpreet Kaur Sapra Punjab 2005
41 Dr. Preetam Yashvant Rajasthan 2003
42 Prakash Govindasami Tamil Nadu 2000
43 Dr. M. Balaji Tamil Nadu 2005
44 Jayandhi S Tamil Nadu 2006
45 Yogita Rana Telangana 2003
46 Shailaja Ramaiyer Telangana 1997
47 Dr. Pinky Jowel Uttar Pradesh 2003
48 Dilip Rajaram Jawalkar Uttarakhand 2003
49 Sowjanya Uttarakhand 2003
50 Pankaj Kumar Pandey Uttarakhand 2005

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