Unsung heroes of the freedom fight

I have found it more a rule than an exception that every time I think I am doing something unique, someone else has already done it way before me and in a much better way. Here is a comprehensive list of all the revolts against the British Empire - the famous and the unsung.

While much has been written on the Indian Freedom Movement as led by the Congress and Gandhi, little is known of the numerous uprisings by peasants, tribal communities, princely states and other isolated revolutionary acts of resistance against the British. Heroic acts of resistance against the British during 1763 to 1857 are particularly unknown. The following is a listing of armed revolts that were brutally suppressed by the British as the East India Company consolidated it’s rule in the century preceding the 1857 revolt:-