Oral History
Freedom Fighters
Under the Oral History programmes, U.P. State Archives has recorded the memoirs of several Freedom Fighters. Fifty such audio tapes are preserved in the Archives. 'Smriti Ke Prisht' was the first compilation published in the year 1998 and is based on the memoirs of forty freedom Fighters.
The list of the Freedom Fighters whose recorded memoirs are available is given below:
| Sr No |
Name |
Place of Birth |
Date of Birth |
Contribution |
| 1 | Lt. Sri Ramkrishna Khatri |
Buldana, Maharastra |
3rd March, 1902 |
Participated in the Non-Cooperation Movement in 1920 and Kakori Train Dacoity in 1925. |
| 2 | Lt. Sri Sudhindra Kumar Vardhan |
Singapore |
11th February, 1924 |
Joined Azad Hind Fauj and remained Prisoner of War from September 1945 to February 1946. |
| 3 | Col. Amar Bahadur Singh |
Bhadohi |
- | Served in Azad Hind Fauj. |
| 4 | Sri Basant Singh Bhring |
Meerut |
- | Participated in Quit India Movement in Hastinapur, Meerut in 1942. |
| 5 | Smt. Premvati Mishra |
Agra |
- | Participated in the Movements of 1930 and 1942. |
| 6 | Acharya Deepankar Shastri |
Meerut |
1918 |
Participated in the 1942 Quit India Movement. |
| 7 | Sri Dwarika Prashad Maheshwari |
Agra |
1916 |
Writer of children's books. Participated in 1942 Quit India Movement. |
| 8 | Sri Anup Singh Tyagi |
Meerut |
- | Participated in the Movements of 1930 and 1942. |
| 9 | Sri Har Dutt Shastri |
Meerut |
1921 |
Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 10 | Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sharma |
Agra |
23rd December, 1925 |
Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 11 | Sri Jagmohan Sharma |
Meerut |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 12 | Shaheed ChandraBhan |
Meerut |
- | participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 13 | Sri Dutt Tripathi |
Meerut |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 14 | Sri Daan Singh |
Nainital |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 15 | Sri Gopal Singh |
Nainital |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 16 | Sri Kanti Prasad Bhatnagar |
Meerut |
1916 |
Participated in the Movements of 1930 and 1942. |
| 17 | Sri Vidya Sagar Dixit |
Meerut |
- | Participated in the Movement of 1930. |
| 18 | Sri Babu Ram Tyagi |
Meerut |
2nd January, 1924 |
Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 19 | Sri Khote Lal Shah |
Almora |
18th May, 1912 |
Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 20 | Sri Rajeshwar Shastri |
Meerut |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 21 | Sri HotiLal Agarwal |
Meerut |
1916 |
Participated in the Movements of 1940 and 1942. |
| 22 | Sri Khachendy Singh |
Meerut |
October, 1917 |
Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 23 | Sri Shiv Lal Verma |
Almora |
- | Participated in the Movements of 1930,1940 & 1942. |
| 24 | Sri Mohan Singh |
Nainital |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 25 | Sri Dharam Lal Verma |
Almora |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 26 | Sri Baburam |
Etah |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 27 | Sri Ram Singh Bhakuni |
Almora |
- | Participated in the Movements of 1940 & 1942. |
| 28 | Sri Madan Singh Dhoundiyal |
Nainital |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 29 | Sri Dhani Ram |
Nainital |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 30 | Sri Jaidutta Baila |
Nainital |
- | Participated in the Movements of 1940 and 1942. |
| 31 | Sri Raghubar Das Pandey |
Almora |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 32 | Sri Madan Kholya |
Almora |
- | Participated in the Movements of 1940 and 1942. |
| 33 | Sri Diwan Singh |
Almora |
- | Participated in the Movement of 1930. |
| 34 | Sri Parmanand Pandey |
Almora |
- | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 35 | Sri Moti Ram Joshi |
Almora |
18th April, 1921 |
Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 36 | Sri Prithvi Nath Chautervedi |
Agra |
29th March, 1916 |
Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 37 | Sri Rajbihari Lal Mathur |
Kanpur |
1920 |
He was a Sepoy of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's Azad Hind Fauj. |
| 38 | Kumari Kamla Sharma |
Pori |
16th November, 1924 |
Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
| 39 | Sri Hargovind Shukla |
Agra |
1st July, 1923 |
Participated in the Movements of 1930 and 1942. |
| 40 | Sri Varshney |
- | - | Participated in the Quit India Movement of 1942. |
The memoirs of the following freedom fighters have also been recorded under the 'Oral History Programme' :- |
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| 41 | Sri Chavi Nath Rai |
Jaunpur |
- | - |
| 42 | Sri Hergovind |
Ambedker Nagar |
- | - |
| 43 | Sri Jai Singh |
Lucknow. |
- | - |
| 44 | Sri Raja Ram Dwivedi |
Hamirpur |
- | - |
| 45 | Dr. Hernath Singh Yadaev |
Hamirpur |
- | - |
| 46 | Sri Dharmraj Singh |
Lucknow |
- | - |
| 47 | Sri Girja Dutt Tiwari |
Lucknow |
- | - |
| 48 | Pademshree Vachnesh Tripathi |
Lucknow |
- | - |
| 49 | Sri Leeladhar Sharma 'Parvatiya' |
Lucknow |
- | - |
| 50 | Sushri Kunchan Lata Sabbervall |
Lucknow. |
- | - |
| 51 | Sri Ramnarash Kushwaha |
Deoria |
- | - |
| 52 | Sri Ram Outar Agarwal |
Lucknow |
- | - |
| 53 | Sri Muneshwer Singh |
Balia |
- | - |
| 54 | Sri Shivnath Tiwari |
Kanpur |
- | - |
| 55 | Sri Babu Singh |
Hardoi |
- | - |
| 56 | Sri Jharkhanday Tripathi |
Lucknow |
- | - |
| 57 | Sri Jagat Mohan |
Lucknow |
- | - |
| 58 | Sri Ram Vichar Pandey |
Balia |
- | - |
| 59 | Sri Shivmohan |
Lucknow |
- | - |
| 60 | Sri Shivnarayan Sharma |
Sitapur |
- | - |
| 61 | Sri Swaraj Prakash Awasthi |
Sitapur |
- | - |
| 62 | Sri Shanti Swarup Choudhri | Sitapur |
- | - |
| 63 | Sri Ram Srivastava |
Sitapur |
- | - |
| 64 |
Sri Neelkant |
Allahabad | - | - |
| 65 | Sri Shanti Swaroop |
Bareily |
- | - |
| 66 | Sri Kishan Lal Anand | Bareily | - | - |
| 67 | Sri Aftab Ahmad Khan | Aligarh | - | - |
| 68 | - | - | - | |
| 69 | Sri Ram Chandra | Eta | - | - |
| 70 | - | - | - | |
| 71 | Sri Vishwanath Bhadauria | Kanpur | - | - |
| 72 | - | - | - | |
| 73 | Sri Dhanya Kumar Jain | Varanasi | - | - |
| 74 | - | - | - | |
| 75 | Sri Shiv Shankar Singh | Varanasi | - | - |
| 76 | Smt. Swaroop Kumari Bakshi | Lucknow | - | Participated in under ground movement 1942 |
| 77 | Begum Hamida Habibullah | Lucknow | - | Founder Member of Sewa Institution |
Voice Recordings Of Freedom Fighters
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क्रमांक |
स्वतंत्रता सेनानी का नाम |
रिकार्डिंग |
1 |
श्री राम कुमार अवस्थी, कानपुर |
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2 |
डा0 बैजनाथ सिंह, लखनऊ |
|
3 |
श्री एस0आर0 वर्मा, बलिया |
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4 |
श्रीमती बेगम हबीबुल्लाह, लखनऊ |
|
5 |
श्री हेमन्त कुमार, मेरठ |
|
6 |
श्री महावीर सिंह, बुलन्दशहर |
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7 |
श्री हमीदुल्ला हिन्दी, महाराजगंज |
|
8 |
मो0 शाबिर अली, लखनऊ |
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9 |
श्री अयोध्या प्रसाद गुप्ता, गोण्डा |