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The freedom movement in India has a long history and many sacrificed their lives to free our mother country from the clutches of the foreign yoke, the British Though millions of people sacrificed their families, wealth and their lives for achieving the goal of freedom from the British, only the role played by the most important leaders have taken the pages of our history. As the Historian Ranajit Guha rightly points out that there are millions of people from the below whose sacrifices and contributions for the freedom movement went unnoticed. The story of the organic, class consciousness of the Indian masses who constituted an autonomous domain of anti-colonial and anti-bourgeois politics of their own, paralleled to the domain of the elitist power contest, which often, to the inconvenience of the nationalist elites, burst forth into violent resistance to both the colonial state and the elite nationalist movement in order to realize their political "hegemony." The author argues that these resistance movements, though they were systematically betrayed by the elite nationalist leadership and brutally suppressed by the colonial power, formed the true history of Indian Freedom Struggle and Indian people.1 In the same way. The contributions made by the leaders and the people of the South to the freedom struggle have also sidelined by the historians and due importance have not been given to the sacrifices made by them.) Even among the States of South, if Tamil Nadu is taken the leaders kike, Bharathiar, V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Subramaniya Shiva, Vanchinathan and few others were known to all. The sacrifices made by many others are not brought to frontline, and their roles have become unnoticed. Hence, it is noteworthy to bring out the contributions made by the ordinary people and the leaders who were not brought to limelight.