NOBLE PERSONALITIES IN INDIA

by **pareekutty** Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:01 pm

Nobel Personalities in India

<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Abdul Ghaffar Khan </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Acharya Vinoba Bhave </td></tr><tr><td style="">Saintly personality; had devoted his life to social welfare; founder of the Bhoodan movement.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Amir Khusrau </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Anand Mohan Bose </td></tr><tr><td style="">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
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Ashutosh Mukherjee </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Aurobindo Ghosh </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Bal Gangadhar Tilak </td></tr><tr><td style="">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
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Bhagat Singh </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Chakravarti Rajagopalachari </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Dadabhai Naoro Ji </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Dr. B. R. Ambedkar </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Dr. Rajendra Prasad </td></tr><tr><td style="">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
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Gopal Krishna Gokhale </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Govinda Ballabh Pant </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar</td></tr><tr><td style="">Social reformer and educationist from Bengal and a pioneer in the field of primary education and widow re-marriage.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Jamshedji Tata </td></tr><tr><td style="">Parsi industrialist and philanthropist. Father of Indian industry, founded Tata, Iron and Steel Company in Bihar.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Lal Bahadur Shastri </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Lala Lajpat Rai </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.

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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.
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<table><tr><td rowspan="2">[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]</td><td style="height: 10px;">Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit </td></tr><tr><td style="">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.
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by **raman** Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:27 pm

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