Netaji As Communists See Him

There are other stories,

* Rani Chennamma from Kittur (north Karnataka)
When the British wanted to secede the kingdom to their empire by putting forward the doctrine of lapse as Rani Chennamma’s son was adopted, the queen refused to secede her kingdom after her husband’s death. Aided by Rayanna, she fought British bravely but was defeated and imprisoned.

After her death Sangolli Rayanna continued to fight the British. His land was confiscated, and of what remained of it was heavily taxed. He taxed the landlords and built up an army from the masses. He used guerrilla tactics to attack government property; burnt land records and extracted huge sums of money from notorious landlords and bureaucrats. Rayanna is considered by many historians as the pioneer of Guerrilla warfare in India. He continued this warfare till 1829. Finally he was captured by treachery and hanged. At the time of being hanged he said "My last wish is to be born again in the country to fight against the British and drive them away from our sacred soil".

* Tipu Sultan made a valiant bid to unite the Indian princes against British. He even wrote to Sultan Salim III of Turkey to join hands with him for the expulsion of British. His whole life was spent in the struggle. He came on the verge of success, the English were about to be swept out of the land, but they managed to achieve through diplomacy what they could not gain by arms. They cleverly obtained the support of some rulers of the South and by the use of other methods of treachery and deceit defeated the gallant son of Mysore. Tipu Sultan was finally killed in the thick battle on May 4, 1799. He preferred death to a life of servitude under the British. His famous, historic, words spoken a little before he met his death were: “To live for a day like a tiger is far more precious than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.”