Woodcut-style silhouettes of a protester, ships, a flag, prison bars and a printing press

An interactive historical archive · 1857–1946

Revolutionaries

The other story of how India won its freedom — mapped, connected, and brought to life.

An interactive companion to Sanjeev Sanyal’s Revolutionaries, with narrowly scoped research from Vikram Sampath’s Savarkar biographies.

A soldier bites a cartridge in 1857. Naval ratings mutiny in 1946.

Between them lies nearly a century of hidden connections: secret societies, printing presses, exile routes, prison cells and ideas passed from one generation to the next.

Most of the names were forgotten. Almost none lived to see freedom.

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The core network

The eighteen most connected people, organisations, events and publications — ranked directly from the archive.

Open the network

Four ways into the archive

Timeline

See lives, action and imprisonment unfold across a century.

Network

Trace who organised, influenced and fought alongside whom.

Map

Follow people and organisations across India and the world.

Follow the fire

Walk a guided path from two beginnings to the naval mutiny.

Curated routes

Choose a thread through history

India House

Exile, recruitment, and revolutionary print in London.

Revolutionary print

How books, newspapers, and pamphlets travelled.

Prison networks

Captivity, survival, and ideas carried forward.

The road to 1946

The lineage ending with the naval mutiny.

Built from evidence

Every connection is tied to a source and marked High, Medium or Low confidence. Context markers are kept separate from sourced graph data.

This is an independent, fan-made project. It is not authorized, reviewed, or endorsed by either author or their publishers.