The document discusses several bold personalities from Indian history including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, and Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel. It provides brief biographical details and highlights their contributions to India's independence movement and development, noting how each displayed courage, determination and fearlessness in the face of risks and adversity. Key actions discussed include Gandhi's nonviolent protests, Nehru and Indira Gandhi's roles as prime ministers, Dayanand Saraswati founding the Arya Samaj reform movement, Bose leading

1. BOLD PERSONALITIES
FROM INDIAN HISTORY
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2. Who is a Bold Personality?
• In the context of sociability, a bold person
may be willing to risk shame or rejection in
social situations, and willing to bend rules of
etiquette or politeness.
• Outside a social context, "boldness" can also
refer to a willingness to get things done,
even despite risks, and is therefore broadly
synonymous with bravery.

3. 1. Fearless and daring; courageous.
2. Requiring or exhibiting courage and bravery.
3. Confident and ambitious.
4. Ready to take risks

4. • A person who is not afraid to speak up for
what he believes, even to people with more
power than him, is an example of someone
who is bold.

5. Mahatma Gandhi
• Born: October 2, 1869, Porbandar
• Assassinated: January 30, 1948, Birla House
• Achievements: Known as Father of Nation;
played a key role in winning freedom for
India; introduced the concept of Ahimsa and
Satyagraha. (Nonviolence and Truthfulness)

6. • Gandhiji organised the Indian community in
South Africa and asked them to forget all
distinctions of religion and caste.
• He helped found the Natal Indian
Congress in 1894, and through this
organisation, he moulded the Indian
community of South Africa into a unified
political force.

7. • At a mass protest meeting held in
Johannesburg on 11 September that year,
Gandhi adopted his still evolving
methodology of Satyagraha(holding fast to
truth or firmness in a righteous cause), or
non-violent protest, for the first time. He
urged Indians to defy the new law and to
suffer the punishments for doing so.

8. • Gandhiji's Satyagraha forced British
government to set up a inquiry into the
condition of tenant farmers.
• In 1921, Gandhiji gave the call for Non-cooperation
movement against the ills
(Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Incident) of
British rule. Gandhiji's call roused the
sleeping nation.

9. • His Birthday October 2 is commemorated
as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and
world-wide as the International Day of Non-
Violence.
• Gandhi's date of death, 30 January, is
commemorated as a Martyrs' Day in India.
• In 2007, the United Nations General
Assembly declared Gandhi's birthday 2
October as “the International Day of Non-
Violence”.

10. • "An eye for an eye only ends up making the
whole world blind." – Mahatma Gandhi

11. Pandit Jawharlal Nehru
• Born: November 14, 1889, Allahabad
• Died: May 27, 1964, New Delhi
• Jawaharlal Nehru often referred to as
Panditji is the first Prime Minister of
independent India.

12. • His birthday, November 14, is celebrated in
India as Baal Divas ("Children's Day") in
recognition of his lifelong passion and work
on behalf of children and young people.
• Nehru family changed its family according to
Mahatma Gandhi's teachings. Jawaharlal and
Motilal Nehru abandoned western clothes
and tastes for expensive possessions and
pastimes. They now wore a Khadi Kurta and
Gandhi cap.

13. • Jawaharlal Nehru took active part in the Non-
Cooperation Movement 1920-1922 and was
arrested for the first time during the movement.
He was released after few months.
• Jawaharlal Nehru was arrested in 1942
during Quit India Movement. Released in
1945, he took a leading part in the
negotiations that culminated in the emergence
of the dominions of India and Pakistan in August
1947.

14. • Signed treaties with Pakistan and China
• In 1955 Nehru was awarded Bharat Ratna,
India's highest civilian honour.

15. Indira Gandhi
Born: November 19, 1917, Allahabad
Assassinated: October 31, 1984, New Delhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhiwas an Indian
politician who served as the 3rd Prime
Minister of India for three consecutive terms
(1966–77) and a fourth term (1980–84).

16. • Gandhi was the second female head of
government in the world after Sirimavo
Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka and she remains
as the world's second longest serving female
Prime Minister as of 2012.
• She was the first woman to become prime
minister in India.
• She was the first woman to Receive Bharat
Ratna Award in 1971.

17. • She was also the only Indian Prime Minister
to have declared a state of emergency in
order to 'rule by decree' and the only Indian
Prime Minister to have been imprisoned
after holding that office.
• Shortly after their marriage both Indira
Gandhi and Feroze Gandhi were arrested
and jailed for nationalist activities.

18. • In 1959, Indira Gandhi became President of
the Indian National Congress.
• Signed several treaties with Soviet Union.
• Indira Gandhi campaigned fiercely on the
slogan of "Garibi Hatao" (eliminate
poverty)during the fifth general elections in
March 1971 and won an unprecedented
two-third majority.

19. • In 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
declared a state of internal emergency after
she was indicted in a corruption scandal and
ordered to vacate her seat in the Indian
Parliament, allowing herself to rule by
decree until 1977 and and jailed all her
political opponents. The Emergency lasted
till March 1977.

20. • The day before her death Indira Gandhi
visited Orissa on 30 October 1984 where
she gave her last speech:
• "I am alive today; I may not be there
tomorrow. I shall continue to serve till my
last breath and when I die every drop of my
blood will strengthen India and keep a united
India alive."

21. Swami Dayananda Saraswati
• Born: February 12, 1824, Gujarat
• Died: October 31, 1883, Jodhpur
• One of the most radical socio-religious
reformers in the history of India was
Dayanand Saraswati.
• Founder of Arya Samaj.

22. • Propagated egalitarian approach of the
Vedas at a time when widespread casteism
was prevalent in the society.
• He has established gurukuls to impart
Vedic education.
• His parents decided to marry him off in his
early teens which was very common in 19th
century India, but he decided marriage was
not for him and ran away from home.

23. • He made fiery speeches condemning the
caste system, idolatry, and child marriages.
• Dayanand Saraswati being the first leader in
the field of theology who welcomed the
advances of sciences and technology.
• Dayanand Saraswati founded Arya Samaj
in Mumbai in 1875 to promote social
service.

24. • Swami Dayananda`s creation, the Arya
Samaj, is a unique component in Hinduism.
Arya Samaj, postulates in principle equal
justice for all men and all nations, together
with equality of the sexes. The Arya Samaj
condemns idol-worship, animal sacrifices,
ancestor worship, pilgrimages, priestcraft,
offerings made in temples, the caste system,
untouchability, and child marriages.

25. Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
• Born: January 23, 1897, Cuttack
• Died: Unknown
• Subhash Chandra Bose, affectionately called
as Netaji, was one of the most prominent
leaders of Indian freedom struggle.
• He founded Indian National Army (Azad Hind
Fauj)to overthrow British Empire from India
and came to acquire legendary status among
Indian masses.

26. • He came 4th in the ICS examination and
was selected but he did not want to work
under an alien government which would
mean serving the British. He resigned from
the civil service job and returned to India in
1921.
• In 1927, after being released from prison,
Bose became general secretary of the
Congress party and worked with Jawaharlal
Nehru for independence.

27. • Subash Chandra Bose was soon arrested
again under the infamous Bengal
Regulation. After a year he was released on
medical grounds and was banished from
India to Europe.
• Defying the ban on his entry to India, Subash
Chandra Bose returned to India and was
again arrested and jailed for a year.

28. • Bose most famous quote was:
“Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom!”
• Jai Hind, or, "Glory to India!“ was another
slogan used by him and later adopted by the
Government of India and the Indian Armed
Forces.
• The West Bengal government decided in 2011
to observe Bose's birth anniversay (23 January)
as Desh Prem Divas which means Day of
Patriotism.

29. Sardar Vallabh bhai Patel
• Born: October 31, 1875, Nadiad
• Died: December 15, 1950, Mumbai
• Sardar Vallabh bhai Jhaver bhai Patel was an
Indian barrister and one of the leaders of
the Indian National Congress and one of
the founding fathers the Republic of India.

30. • He was independent India's first Deputy
Prime Minister and first Home Minister.
• He is also regarded as the "Bismarck of
India" and "Iron Man of India".

31. • In 1928, Bardoli Talukain Gujarat suffered
from floods and famine.
• In this hour of distress the British
government raised the revenue taxes by
thirty percent. Sardar Patel took up cudgels
on behalf of the farmers and appealed to the
Governor to reduce the taxes. The Governor
refused and the government even
announced the date of the collection of
the taxes.

32. • Sardar Patel organized the farmers and
told them not to pay even a single pie
of tax. The government tried to repress
the revolt but ultimately bowed before
Vallabhbhai Patel.
• Patel was officially awarded the Bharat
Ratna, India's highest civilian honour
posthumously in 1991.
• Patel's birthday, 31 October, is celebrated
nationally in India as Sardar Jayanti.

33. Qualities Learned from them
• Determination.
• Courage.
• Faith in yourself.
• Resilience.
• Fearlessness.
• Self confidence.
• Hard work.

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