*Aurobindo Ghosh
-An ardent nationalist who later became a saint, was educated in England. His viewswere readily accepted by Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab and Bal Gangadhar Tilak of Maharashtraand led to the formation of an extremist school within the Congress.
*Bal Gangadhar Tilak
- known as Lokmanya. He organised Extremist Party within theCongress with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pai. Britishers called him "Fatherof Indian Unrest".
He gave the slogan call "Swaraj is my birth right". Tilak was the founder-editor of Mahratta (English) and Kesar
*Acharya Vinoba Bhave
-Saintly personality; had devoted his life to social welfare; founder of the Bhoodan movement.
*Abdul Ghaffar Khan
-He was known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'. He was a nationalist Muslim leader of theNorth-West Frontier Province. He first started a militant organisation known as the 'Red Shirt'
*Amir Khusrau
-Assumed 'Parrot of India', was a famous poet and author who wrote in poetry andprose and also composed music. He enjoyed the patronage of successive Sultans
ofDelhi from Balban to Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq. He died in 1324-25. His works include Tughluq namah and theTarikh-i-Alai.
*Bhagat Singh
-Known as Shahid-e-Azam. Founded Naujawan Bharat Sabha. Exploded bomb in Central Legislative Assembly at Lahore on April 8, 1929. He was arrested and sentenced forlife. He along with Sukh Dev and Shivram Rajguru, was hanged on March 23, 1931 for participating in Lahore conspiracy.
*Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
-A prominent Indian politician, born inSouth India in 1879. He was the General Secretary
of the Indian National Congress
in 1921-22 and wasa member of the Congress WorkingCommitee. *Dadabhai Naoro Ji
-He was elected president of the Indian National Congress at its second session heldin Calcutta in 1886. He was the first Indian to be elected a member of the Houseof Commons in England on a ticket of Liberal Party. Twice again, in 1893 andin1906, he was elected president of the INC.
*Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
-A prominent leader of the Scheduled Castes. Built up a party of the untouchables,became a member of the Constitutent Assembly and piloted through it the Indian ConstitutionAct which declared India to be Republic. He also piloted the Hindu Code throughthe Indian Legislature.
*Dr. Rajendra Prasad
-He was the first President of the Republic of India. Born in Bihar in 1884, educatedat the Calcutta Universty, he began his career as an advocate and soon commandeda very large practice at Patna High Court. Prasad became the president of Congress in 1934, 1939 and 1947; a minister in Nehru's cabin
*Gopal Krishna Gokhale
-He was a prominent Indian nationalist, and presided over the 1905 session of the Indian National Congress. In 1905 he founded at Poona the Servants of India Society.He died in 1915. He is considered as the 'Political Guru' of Gandhiji.
Govinda
*Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
-Social reformer and educationist from Bengal and a pioneer in the field of primaryeducation and widowre-marriage.
*Jamshedji Tata
-Father of Indian industry, founded Tata,Iron and Steel Company in Bihar.
*Lal Bahadur Shastri
-Prime Minister of India from May, 1964 to his death on 11 January, 1966. He was conferred Bharat Ratna post humously. He was a martyr for the cause of peace between India and Pakistan at Tashkent.
*Lala Lajpat Rai
-Indian national leader known
as"Lion of Punjab". Founder editor of Bande Mataram,The Punjabee and The People. Died of injuries caused by police lathi-charge while leading a demonstration against Simon Commission at Lahore in 1928. Authorof Young
India, The Arya Samaj and England's Debt to India.
*Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
-Better known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born on October 2, 1869 at Porbandar in Gujarat.Became a barrister-at-law (1891) in England. Went to South Africa in 1893. Stayedthere till 1914 for the cause of the emancipation of the Indians from the insultinglife.
*Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit
-Born in 1900, was a talented daughterof Pandit Motilal Nehru. She held many highoffices after Indian independence including the post of India's High Commissionerin England (1955-61) and India's Ambassador to the
U. S. S. R. as well as to the U. S. A.
*Mrs. Annie Besant
-English theosophist, born in London in October 1847. She founded the Central HinduCollege at Banaras and was elected president of the Theosophical Society in 1907.In 1916 she founded the Indian Home Rule League and became its first presidentandin 1917.
*Mrs. Sarojini Naldu
-The most talented Indian lady, born of Bengali parents, was a poet and orator whotook a prominent part in Indian politics. She presided over the Kanpur session ofthe Indian NationalCongress in 1925 and was the first lady to be appointed a stateGovernor in the Republic of India.
* Netaji Subhash Bose
Popularly known as Netaji, was born on January 23, 1879, at Cuttack. He passed theIndian Civil Service Examination in 1920. He joined the Indian National Congressin 1921. In 1938 he was the president of the INC at its Haripura session and in1939 he
was elected president of its Tripuri
session.
*Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru
He was the first Prime Minister of Independent India and is known as the architectof modem India. He was born in Allahabad on Novemeber 14,1889.
* Rabindranath Tagore
Poet, novelist, patriot, educationist, essayist, painter and philosopher. He foundedShantiniketan (now Viswabharati University) in West Bengal. The first Asian to receiveNobel Prize in Literature (for Gitanjati in 1913), writer of National Anthems ofIndia and Bangladesh.
* Ram Manohar Lohla
A social and political revolutionary, he founded the'Samajwadi Party' after differenceof opinion with the Congress.
* Patel Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
A renowned Indian patriot and politician, was born on the 31st, October, 1875 inGujarat and began hiscareer as a lawyer. He took a leading part in the BardoliSatyagraha movement. In 1931 he became the president of the Congress.
*Sarvapalli Radha Krishan
The second President of the Republic of India. Radha Krishnan was appointed as India'sambassador to the USSR in 1949. In 1962 he became the President of India. His birthday,Sept 5, is celebrated as Teacher's Day.'
* Shaukat Ali
A prominent leader and politician amongst the Indian Muhammadans. He along withhis brother Muhammad All, led the Khilafat Movement in 1919-20. He also joined theIndian National Congress and the non-co-operation movement.
*Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan
He was a prominent leader of the Indian Muhammadans. Remained loyal to the Britishduring the Sepoy Mutiny (1857-58), founded the Muhammadan Anglo-Oriental Collegeat Aligarh in 1875. In 1920 the college was raised to the status of University andcalled the Aligarh Muslim University.
*Zakir Hussain
Proposed Wardha Scheme of education, formerly Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia. Hewas elected as President of India in 1967.
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