746 freedom struggle martyrs identified
746 freedom struggle martyrs identified
HYDERABAD: As many as 746 martyrs, who laid down their lives during the freedom struggle, from 1857 (sepoy mutiny) to 1948, were i..

HYDERABAD: As many as 746 martyrs, who laid down their lives during the freedom struggle, from 1857 (sepoy mutiny) to 1948, were identified in the state by the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR). The details will be included in the directory of Indian martyrs, which will be compiled and published by  the ICHR.Andhra Pradesh will be the  fifth state to submit its list of martyrs, after Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. In 2009, ICHR launched the National Register of Martyrs (NRM)  project to identify martyrs in every state across the country. The study began in the state at the AP State Archives and Research Institute, Hyderabad, in  August 2011, with three research scholars and one coordinator, said  Prof Vakulabharanam Ramakrishna, project coordinator in AP.So for, the study has identified 746 martyrs in the state. Of these, 658 were from Telangana region and 75 percent of them died during the movement to join the Indian Union (1947-48). There were 83 martyrs from coastal Andhra and five from Rayalaseema. The number of martyrs will go up further as scholars are going through the records of the Indian Nation Army (Subhas Chandra Bose’s Azad Hind Fauz) and Hyderabad State’s Urdu records to find more martyrs, Prof Ramakrishna said.“We are going to send the first report of martyrs from AP towards the end of this month. The study will be completed in July,” he said.The information gathered is from secondary sources like government publications, newspaper reports, pamphlets and books published between 1857 to 1948, and other material published by the government. The ICHR has undertaken the project at the request of the Union ministry of culture.  ‘’This work should have been taken up soon after independence. But it took more than 60 years to launch a study to compile a directory of martyrs,’’ he said.The Central information commission approached the home ministry to draw up the martyrs’ list for future reference.

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