Contribution to Freedom Movement by different section of the society in Rajasthan :

In the rajputana province there were a lot of majestic states. Most of these states were princely where rulers were having all the powers. Ajmer was the only province which was directly under the control of british. Different sections of the society contributed in their own way to the fight for independence. Few of them are mentioned below-

Royalty of Rajasthan :

Thakur Rao Gopal Singh of Kharwa (near Ajmer) was a diehard patriot. He was imprisoned for 4 years in Todagarh Fort for the armed revolt he organized against the British. A fair is organized every year near Ajmer to honor their former Thakur who died in 1939.

Aristocrats :

Daulat Mal Bhandari was elected as Development and Agriculture Minister in the erstwhile Jaipur State Legislative Assembly in 1947. However, long before that, he actively took part in the Freedom Struggle. The "Azad Morcha" was formed by him in 1942 along with a staged Satyagarh for which he served a 9 month imprisonment. He also organized "Praja Mandal", a group of local people against the British rule in Jaipur.

Charan Community :

Pratap Singh Baharath was an independence activist who played prominent role in the revolutionary movement. He was a follower of Ras Bihari Bose, who inspired him to join the Revolutionary Party. He was an active participant in planning the bombing at Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India on 3 December 1912. He was sentenced to jail for five years in Feb 1916 in Banaras Conspiracy Case. He was brutally tortured to reveal the name of his fellow patriots Bareilly Central Jail. He refused and died as  unsung hero in the jail on 7 May 1918.

Royal Services (eg. State Police, Princely State Army,etc.) :

Hanuman Singh Budania was in police service of princely state of Bikaner. He was sympathetic to the revolutionary people of the state. Maharaja of Bikaner was warned regarding this. As a result, he left the police service in 1942 and joined Bikaner Rajya Praja Parishad. He convinced the villagers to join the Parishad by making them aware of the freedom movement. He also took part in the Indian Praja Parishad conference held during the same period. The conference was chaired by Jawahar Lal Nehru. An arrest warrant was issued against him and the 8000 farmers who were against the Jagirdari system. However, they vanished into a unknown forest. Later, he was arrested and punished with severe imprisonment for one year. To increase the hardships, snakes were left in his jail room. He was released only after the independence in 1947.

Farmers' community :

Lothoo Ram Jat, a farmer is regarded as the Robinhood of the Shekhawati region. It is believed that he created the grounds of the Revolution of 1857 in Shekhawati region. Tatya Tope was highly impressed from Lothoo and his team and he has all the hopes from them regarding the Revolt in Shekhawati region. However, unfortunately Lothoo Ram Jat died 2 years before the actual revolution began and his team surrendered after his death.

Harlal Singh was an agitator for the farmers' movement in colonial India. He was the member of Jat Mahasabha created by British to repress Jats from 1925-1929. In the 1940s, he was appointed as the president of the famous political protest movement, the Praja Mandal. Being the president, he performed as an important channel between the urban and peasant communities in their combined efforts for the freedom of India from British rule. After the independence, the Praja Mandals became an integral part of the Indian National Congress. He got appointed as the organiser by the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee in the princely state of Jaipur.

Affluent Sections :

Sagarmal Gopa was a freedom fighter and patriot born in affluent Brahmin family in Jaisalmer. Being a follower of Mahatma Gandhi, he actively took part in the non-cooperation movement in 1921. He was driven out of Jaisalmer and Hyderabad. However, even in the exile, he continued to work from Nagpur. He was arrested on 25 May 1941 on his return to Jaisalmer after his father's death. He was tortured for 5 years in the prison. On 4 April 1946, he was burnt to death at the age of 46.

Rao Tula Ram was born in a family of Jagirdars. He is credited with temporarily driving out the British from Northern-Rajasthan and South-Haryana for the cause of 1857 rebellion. He was great leader, a good administrator and skilled military commander. He left India after the uprising of 1857 ended and met with the rulers of Afghanistan and Iran. He also contacted Tsar of Russia to seek help in forcing out the British from India. However, his plans could not be fulfilled due to his sudden death from dysentery at the age of 38 on 3 September 1863.

Countless persons from Rajasthan contributed towards the Independence Movement and many of them sacrificed their dear lives for this great and noble cause and provide immense support to get India free.