Thakur Rao Gopal Singh of Kharwa-Yes! Royalty did participate in freedom movement and this Thakur of Kharwa (near Ajmer) proved to be a patriot. He organised an armed revolt against British for which he had to face imprisonment for 4 years in Todagarh fort. He died in 1939. Every year people organise aMelato commemorate their former Thakur near Ajmer.

Aristocracy

Daulat Mal Bhandari-Bhandari took active part in the freedom struggle. In 1942 he formed the "Azad Morcha" in Jaipur and staged satyagrah. He was imprisoned for nine months. He also organised ‘Praja Mandal’ in the Jaipur State.He served as the Development and Agriculture Minister of the erstwhile Jaipur State in 1947 on being elected to the Jaipur State Legislative Assembly.

Farmers' community

Lothoo Ram Jat -It is said that he was the one responsible for creating grounds of1857 Revolutionin Shekhawati region and Tatya Tope's all hopes in Shekhawati region were from Lothoo and his team. He could be regarded as'Robinhood of Shekhawati'. But he died 2 years before revolution and his team had to surrender.

Harlal Singh-Harlal Singh was a campaigner in the farmers' movement of colonial India. Recruited to politics by the Jat Mahasabha, he remained a member of that organisation from 1925 to 1929. This Mahasabha was created by British to pacify Jats and prevent changes. . Later, in the 1940s, Singh served as president of an urban-based political protest movement, called the Praja Mandal, and was an important conduit between the urban and agrarian communities in their efforts seeking independence of India. Post-independence, and with the Praja Mandals now a part of the Indian National Congress, he was appointed by the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee as their organiser in the former princely state of Jaipur.

Affluent Sections

Sagarmal Gopa-Sagarmal Gopa was a freedom fighter born in affluent Brahmin family. He was a follower of Gandhiji and author of 'Jaisalmer ka Gundaraj'. He was expelled from states of Jaisalmer and Hyderabad but still he worked from Nagpur. He died at age of 46 after being tortured for 5 years by Jaisalmer state.

Rao Tula Ram-Rao Tula Ram belonged to a family of Jagirdars. He is regarded as the one to win Northern-Rajasthan and South-Haryana for the cause of1857 rebellion. Noted as a good administrator and military commander, after the 1857 uprising ended, he left India, met rulers of Iran and Afghanistan and also established contacts with the Tsar of Russia, to seek their help in driving the British from India. His plans were cut short by his death from dysentery in Kabul on 23 September 1863, aged 38.

Charan Community

Pratap Singh Baharath-Pratap Singh Baharath was an independence activist from Rajasthan. He took prominent part in the revolutionary movement against British rule in India. He joined the Revolutionary Party as a follower of Ras Bihari Bose. He participated in the revolutionary plot to throw a bomb at Lord Hardinge, Viceroy of India on 3 December 1912. He was arrested in Banaras Conspiracy Case and was sentenced in Feb 1916 to five years RI. He was subjected to brutal torture in Bareilly Central Jail to force him to divulge the names of his compatriots. He refused. He died in the jail on 7 May 1918 as an unsung hero.

Religion and Social Reformers

Swami Keshawanand-Born at village Magloona in Sikar district of present-day Rajasthan in 1883, Swamiji, whose actual name was Birama, was the son of Thakarsi, a penurious camel-driver, and his wife Saran. The famine of 1899 forced the 16-year-old Birama to leave the desert region and move to Punjab in search of livelihood. Circumstances had induced in him an ineffable spiritual quest. He approached Mahant Kushaldas of the Udasin sect, to whom he expressed the desire to learn Sanskrit, to be able to study the higher Hindu scriptures from primary sources. Noting that Birama belonged to the Jat caste, which was barred from learning Sanskrit, On Mahant's advice he became aSanyasiand in 1905 Kumbh Mela, He was conferred with the title ofSwami KeshawanandbyMahatma Hirandji Avadhut.