Author: H D Sharma
Publisher: Rupa
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 728
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788129107367
Description
This is a well-documented set of a hundred short biographies of people who have left their footprints on the sands of Indian history, in different ways.
The figures included lived in the last two hundred years, and are no longer alive. Included are persons from almost every field of activity-writers, artists, scientists, social reformers, educationalists, politicians and freedom fighters. Several Britishers who spent a major part of their adult lives in India and contributed in a major way to the country are also included.
This is a unique volume for all those interested in the larger-than-life figures in India’s turbulent history over the past two centuries.
Contents
Preface
1. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956)
2. Charles Freer Andrews (1871-1940)
3. Abul Kalam Azad (1888-1958)
4. Chandra Shekhar Azad (1906-1931)
5. Bahadur Shah II (Zafar) (1775-1862)
6. Surendranath Banejee (1848-1925)
7. Annie Besant (1847-1933)
8. Homi Jehangir Bhabha (1909-1966)
9. Bhagwan Das (1869-1958)
10. Subramania Bharati (1882-1921)
11. Vinoba Bhave (1895-1982)
12. Jagadis Chandra Bose (1858-1937)
13. Rahmat Ali (1897-1950)
14. Rash Behari Bose (1880-1945)
15. Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945)
16. Syed Ahmad Brelvi (1786-1831)
17. Bhikhaji Rustam Cama (1861-1936)
18. William Carey (1761-1834)
19. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya (1838-1894)
20. Alexander Cunningham (1814-1893)
21. Chitta Ranjan Das (1870-1925)
22. Dayanand Saraswati (1824-1883)
23. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-1831)
24. Morarji Desai (1896-1995)
25. Romesh Chunder Dutt (1848-1909)
26. Indira Gandhi (1971-1984)
27. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)
28. Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869)
29. Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950)
30. Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866-1915)
31. Lala Har Dayal (1884-1939)
32. David Hare (1775-1842)
33. Keshavrao Baliram Hedgewar (1889-1940)
34. Allan Octavian Hume (1829-1912)
35. Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938)
36. Kasturi Ranga Iyengar (1859-1923)
37. M.R. Jayakar (1873-1959)
38. Mohammad Ali Jinnah (1876-1948)
39. Kumaraswami Kamaraj (1903-1975)
40. Dhondo Keshav Karve (Maharishi) (1858-1962)
41. Abdul Ghaffar Khan (1890-1988)
42. Syed Ahmed Khan (1817-1898)
43. Khuda Bakhsh (1842-1908)
44. J.B. Kriplani (1888-1982)
45. Lakshmi Bai (1835-1858)
46. Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861-1946)
47. Pherozeshah Mehta (1845-1915)
48. V.K. Krishna Menon (1896-1974)
49. Syama Prasad Mookerjee (1901-1953)
50. Lord Louis Mountbatten (1900-1979)
51. Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi (1887-1971)
52. E.V. Ramaswamy Naicker (1879-1973)
53. Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)
54. Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917)
55. Jayaprakash Narayan (1902-79)
56. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)
57. Motilal Nehru (1861-1931)
58. Nivedita (Sister) Margaret E. Noble (1867-1911)
59. Bipin Chandra Pal (1858-1932)
60. Vishnu Digambar Paluskar (1872-1931)
61. Govind Ballabh Pant (1887-1961)
62. Bhai Parmanand (1874-1947)
63. Vallabhabhai Patel (1875-1950)
64. Jotirao Govindrao Phule (1827-1890)
65. Rajendra Prasad (1884-1936)
66. Premchand (1880-1936)
67. James Prinsep (1799-1840)
68. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975)
69. Lala Lajpat Rai (1865-1928)
70. Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1879-1972)
71. Ramakrishna Parmahansa (1836-1886)
72. C.V. Raman (1888-1970)
73. Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920)
74. Mahadev Govind Ranade (1842-1901)
75. Manabendra Nath Roy (1887-1934)
76. Rammohun Roy (1772-1833)
77. Swami Sahajanand Saraswati (1889-1950)
78. V.S. Srinivasa Sastri (1869-1946)
79. Vinayak Damodzr Sararkar (1883-1966)
80. Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-1889)
81. Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966)
82. Swami Shraddhanand (1856-1926)
83. Bhagat Singh (1907-1931)
84. Bhagat Puran Singh (1904-1992)
85. Ranjit Singh (1780-1839)
86. Dwarkanath Tagore (1794-1845)
87. General Zorawar Singh (1784-1841)
88. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
89. Purushottam Das Tandon (1882-1961)
90. Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata (1839-1904)
91. Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
92. Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856-1920)
93. Tatya Tope (1814-1859)
94. Uday Shankar (1900-1977)
95. Raja Ravi Varma (1848-1906)
96. Shyamji Krishna Varma (1857-1930)
97. Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891)
98. M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962)
99. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)
100. Horace Hayman Wilson (1786-1860)
Bibliography
Index