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13 May Sarvepalli 1952
January
1962 Radhakrishnan 1957
1950

Sarvepalli 13 May
2 13 May 1967 Zakir Hussain 1962
Radhakrishnan 1962

13 May Varahagiri
3 Zakir Hussain 3 May 1969 1967
1967 Venkata Giri

Varahagiri 3 May
20 July 1969
Venkata Giri * 1969

Muhammad 20 July
24 August 1969
Hidayatullah * 1969

24
Varahagiri Gopal Swarup
4 August 24 August 1974 1969
Venkata Giri Pathak
1969

24
Fakhruddin Ali Basappa
5 August 11 February 1977 1974
Ahmed Danappa Jatti
1974

Basappa 11
Danappa Jatti February 25 July 1977
* 1977

Neelam 25 July Muhammad

6 25 July 1982 1977
Sanjiva Reddy 1977 Hidayatullah

Giani Zail 25 July Ramaswamy

7 25 July 1987 1982
Singh 1982 Venkataraman
Prime Minister of India

Pt. Shri
Lal Bahadur Smt. Indira Shri Morarji Shri Charan
Jawaharlal Gulzarilal
Shastri Gandhi Desai Singh
Nehru Nanda

Mr. Rajiv Shri V. P. Shri Chandra P. V. Atal Bihari Dr. Manmohan

Gandhi Singh Shekhar Narasimha Rao Vajpayee Singh
The eighth Secretary-General of
the United Nations

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Nobel Personalities in India

Abdul Ghaffar Khan

He was known as the 'Frontier Gandhi'. He was a nationalist Muslim leader of the
North-West Frontier Province. He first started a militant organisation known as
the 'Red Shirt', and later on joined the non-violent Civil Disobedience Movement
started by Mahatma Gandhi.

Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Saintly personality; had devoted his life to social welfare; founder of the Bhoodan
movement.

Amir Khusrau

Assumed 'Parrot of India', was a famous poet and author who wrote in poetry and
prose and also composed music. He enjoyed the patronage of successive Sultans
of Delhi from Balban to Ghiyas-ud-din Tughluq. He died in 1324-25. His works
include Tughluqnamah and the Tarikh-i-Alai.

Anand Mohan Bose

He was a prominent Indian public man in his times. He was the first Indian to be
a Wrangler of Cambridge University in 1873. He was the founder-secretary of the
Indian Association which was established in Calcutta in 1876, and presided over
the 14th session of the Indian National Congress held in Ma
Ashutosh Mukherjee

He was an eminent lawyer and educationist. He was certainly a maker of modern

Bengal, if not of India, by virtue of his eminent services to the cause of education.
At the early age of 25 he became a member of the Senate of the Calcutta
University of which he became the vice-chancellor.

Aurobindo Ghosh

An ardent nationalist who later became a saint, was educated in England. His
views were readily accepted by Lala Lajpat Rai of Punjab and Bal Gangadhar Tilak
of Maharashtra and led to the formation of an extremist school within the
Congress.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Patriot and statesman, known as Lokmanya. He organised Extremist Party within

the Congress with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pai. Britishers called him
"Father of Indian Unrest". He gave the clarion call "Swaraj is my birth right". Tilak
was the founder-editor of Mahratta (English) and Kesar

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 for life. 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 in South India in 1879. He was the General
Secretary of the Indian National Congress in 1921-22 and was a member of the
Congress Working Commitee. Rajagopalachari was the Chief Minister of Madras
from 1937-39.

Dadabhai Naoro Ji

He was elected president of the Indian National Congress at its second session
held in Calcutta in 1886. He was the first Indian to be elected a member of the
House of Commons in England on a ticket of Liberal Party. Twice again, in 1893
and in 1906, 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
Constitution Act which declared India to be Republic. He also piloted the Hindu
Code through the Indian Legislature.

Dr. Rajendra Prasad

He was the first President of the Republic of India. Born in Bihar in 1884,
educated at the Calcutta Universty, he began his career as an advocate and soon
commanded a 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 Ballabh Pant

The celebrated Sanskrit grammarian, was the author of Ashtadhyayi. He was one
of the leading members and leaders of the Indian National Congress. He became
the Chief Minister in his native province of Uttar Pradesh after independence.

Ishwar Chandra Vtdyasagar

Social reformer and educationist from Bengal and a pioneer in the field of primary
education and widow re-marriage.

Jamshedji Tata

Parsi industrialist and philanthropist. 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 posthumously. 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 Punjabeeand The People. Died of injuries caused by police lathi-
charge while leading a demonstration against Simon Commission at Lahore in
1928. Author of 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. Stayed there till 1914 for the cause of the emancipation of the Indians from
the insulting life.

Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Born in 1900, was a talented daughter of Pandit Motilal Nehru. She held many
high offices after Indian independence including the post of India's High
Commissioner in 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, bom in London in October 1847. She founded the Central
Hindu College 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
president and in 1917.

Mrs. Sarojini Naldu

The most talented Indian lady, born of Bengali parents, was a poet and orator
who took a prominent part in Indian politics. She presided over the Kanpur
session of the Indian National Congress in 1925 and was the first lady to be
appointed a state Governor in the Republic of India.

Netaji Subhash Bose

Popularly known as Netaji, was born on January 23, 1879, at Cuttack. He passed
the Indian Civil Service Examination in 1920. He joined the Indian National
Congress in 1921. In 1938 he was the president of the INC at its Haripura session
and in 1939 he was elected president of its Tripuri session.

Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru

He was the first Prime Minister of Independent India and is known as the architect
of modem India. He was born in Allahabad on Novemeber 14,1889. In 1928 be
became the General Secretary of the Indian National Congress and in 1929 its
President. At the Lahore session under his Presidentship was pass
Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya

A leading nationalist leader, prominent educationist and social reformer. Later on

joined the second session of the Indian National Congress held in 1886 and twice
became its President in 1909 and 1918. His greatest achievement was the
foundation in 1915 in Benaras of the Hindu University.

Pandit Motilal Nehru

A renowned Indian patriot, was born on 6th May, 1861 in Delhi. He began his
career as a lawyer at the Allahabad High Court, joined the Indian National
Movement and started a journal named The Independent' to support the cause of
Indian Nationalism. Along with C. R. Das he formed the Swarajist Party

Rabindranath Tagore

Poet, novelist, patriot, educationist, essayist, painter and philosopher. He founded

Shantiniketan (now Viswabharati University) in West Bengal. The first Asian to
receive Nobel Prize in Literature (for Gitanjati in 1913), writer of National
Anthems of India and Bangladesh.

Ram Manohar Lohla

A social and political revolutionary, he founded the'Samajwadi Party' after

difference of opinion with the Congress.

Ramakrishna Paramhansa

He was a very great spiritual teacher of the Hindus in modern times. His two-
noteworthy disciples were Keshavchandra Sen and Swami Vivekanand.

Rasbehari Basu

He was elected president of the Surat session of the Indian National Congress in
1907 in which the Moderates and Extremists came to a serious clash. Next year
he presided over the Madras session of the INC.

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

A renowned Indian patriot and politician, was born on the 31st, October, 1875 in
Gujarat and began his career as a lawyer. He took a leading part in the Bardoli
Satyagraha movement. In 1931 he became the president of the Congress. He
joined the "interim Government" set up in 1946 as the Home Ministe
Sarvapalli Radha Krishan

The second President of the Republic of India. Radha Krishnan was appointed as
India's ambassador 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

with his brother Muhammad All, led the Khilafat Movement in 1919-20. He also
joined the Indian 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

British during the Sepoy Mutiny (1857-58), founded the Muhammadan Anglo-
Oriental College at Aligarh in 1875. In 1920 the college was raised to the status of
University and called the Aligarh Muslim University.

Sister Nivedita

A famous disciple of Swami Vivekananda, was an Irish lady named Miss Margaret
Nobel.

Swami Vivekananda

Disciple of Rama Krishna Paramahansa, and founder of Ramakrishna Mission at

Belur. He championed the supremacy of Vedantic philosophy and his talk at the
Chicago conference of world religions in 1893 made westerners realise the
greatness of Hinduism for the first time.

V. D. C Savarkar

He founded Mitra Mandal aimed at achieving freedom by armed rebellion, founded

Abhinav Bharat, started Free Indian Society in England (London). Savarkar was
arrested in Nasik conspiracy case and sentenced to transportation for life and
freed in 1937. He authored Indian War of Independence.

W. C. Banetjee

The first president of the Indian National Congress held at Bombay in 1885. He
was made Congress President a second time at its Allahabad session in 1892.
Zakir Hussain

Proposed Wardha Scheme of education, formerly Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia.

He was elected as President of India in 1967.